[courier-users] how to slow down reception and speed up deliveries?

[Ricardo K. <ri...@am...>]

Hi,

My server has gotten into a situation that it has over 20,000 messages in the queue however it is taking too long to deliver them for whatever reason.

I increased the number of delivery threads in /etc/courier/module.esmtp. However I don't really see that taking much effect.

In /etc/courier/esmtpd I have MAXDAEMONS=20

Here's some more info:

Feb 14 09:30:23 server1 courierd: Started ./courierlocal, pid=8167, maxdels=30, maxhost=4, maxrcpt=1
Feb 14 09:30:23 server1 courierd: Started ./courieresmtp, pid=8171, maxdels=100, maxhost=4, maxrcpt=10

I'm using an older version of courier, 0.55

However it's working through the queue too slowly, it had 20,000 yesterday and today 24,000 in the queue.

How can I ensure that courier works more efficiently through the mailq? I'd like to increase the priority of deliveries and decrease for reception.

Thanks
Ricardo