[Mailman-Users] speed up mailman

[Mark Sapiro]

On 02/28/2016 02:26 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On 02/28/2016 12:33 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>
>> If there are more than one or two files in the out/ queue, and if the
>> smtp log has successive entries of the form
> 
> there are 38 files in there at preseent
> -rw-rw----  1 mailman mailman  4441 Feb 28 16:57 1456690111.419805+dd7dabe9420b90aad8e72ee0607a4eb015fb9976.pck
> -rw-rw----  1 mailman mailman 21731 Feb 28 16:33 1456695234.857981+952d2cfb1cfa9559943dc335ca8eced7d26aaa6f.pck
> -rw-rw----  1 mailman mailman 30549 Feb 28 16:33 1456695235.935237+55c1c60ede5771fa2960a0460011f82266dbcb8b.pck
> -rw-rw----  1 mailman mailman 26009 Feb 28 16:33 1456695236.069412+c268ffc9dfded5c93d3b3048831f058e184dd576.pck
> www:/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/out # ls -al |wc
>      38     335    4028


This indicates a serious backlog.


>>
>> Feb 28 08:55:43 2016 (30307) <mesage-id> smtp to list for nnn recips,
>> completed in t.ttt seconds
> 
> this is the postfix mail log?


No. Look at Mailman's smtp log. This may be /var/lib/mailman/logs/smtp
or /usr/local/mailman/logs/smtp or /var/log/mailman/smtp or somewhere
else depending on how mailman was installed


>> with each messages time stamp being t.ttt seconds later than the
>> preceding message, the out/ queue is backlogged. If that is the case,
>> Mailman isn't able to deliver fast enough to Postfix to keep up with
>> it's volume.

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