Dedicated Servers : Email overload!

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This dedicated server discussion started by af199 on 03 January 2008

I’ve had my server for a while and recently i’ve got to the point where i really need to do something about my email. I’m relatively new to this but from what i can tell i’m getting more emails to the server than it can deal with. Typically when i run ’sendmail -bp’ there are in excess of 800 messages waiting to be sent. Looking through the list two things seem to stick out. 1) A significant amount are SPAM 2) The most recent messages seem to be delivered before those further in the ‘backlog’.

The upshot of all this is that some messages appear to never get delivered.

I’m running the following versions :

sendmail-cf-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
sendmail-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
mailscanner-4.31.6-1
spamassassin-3.1.8-2.el4

As i mentioned i’m not an expert in these things and would appreciate a few tips where to start looking. Should i increase threads in the sendmail? Configure mailscanner better?

I’d really appreciate any pointers that someone can give me. 2 minutes, 20 minutes of your time, i’d really appreciate it.

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