Topic: email not functioning correctly

[bigpoppa]

I am having a problem with my email and browsing on my contribs.org release sme server.  I am running the machine as server and gateway.  I have 2 websites, phpbb chat room and email running off this server.  the websites have become extremely slow to load, if they load at all, and I havn't been getting email from this server in about 2 weeks.  anyone have any ideas?  I'll post whatever config info you need if you tell me where to get it.

Thanks

[smeghead]

a) Scan the log files for problems & report any found.
b) Run 'top' on the server and see what is consuming CPU & RAM
c) Using the 'top' info see what processes are the most active

Run the following script to check email config:

http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/queue_repair/index.html

In my experience when a server grinds to a halt it is usually due to some sort of virus/spam flood that the server is struggling with (I have had one server that had over 45,000 quarantined files).  If this seems to be the case then install Gordon Rowells SMTP filter that blocks a lot of this stuff before it even gets into the server (so it reduces the load on the server by stopping attachments before they need to be scanned).

Of course if the memeory load is too great then a chunk more RAM can never hurt.

HTH