Topic: enormous mail queue

[Steven Becker]

I am wondering how to force my mail queue to send faster.  We're a small organization, but just a week of having misconfigured DNS (named was therefore down) resulted in 400,000 messages in the queue.  Wow.  Now what do I do since it is only decreasing at a rate of 13 messages/minute......?

The internet line is only 50% used (proven through MRTG graphs), so I know it could send faster.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Steve]

I have tried this before which works for me:

1. echo 120 > /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote
2. /etc/init.d/qmail restart

Line 1 is to increase the # of remote smtp sessions from the default 20 to 120.