Re: qmail-send nearly stops delivery

[Feizhou <feizhou@graffiti.net>]

Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
> You really need to fix your MUA's quoting.  It's almost impossible to
> read your mail.
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 12:36:35PM +0200, Matthias wrote:
> > Hi Feizhou,
> >
> > there were about 30,000 Mail in the queue and about one third was not yet
> > preprocessed.
> Sounds like you're experiencing 'silly qmail syndrome'
Easy to pick out is it not?

> > I think that the problem ist solved know. But I will try to use the ext-todo
> > patch or big-ext-todo patch.
big-ext-todo is needed if you have really high inject rates and your 
filesystem does not like having thousands of files in a directory.
> yes, but if you apply either, you will make your queue unusable.  You
> will want to move your existing queue to the side, fire up a qmail-send
> on it, and start with the big-ext-todo patch on a fresh queue.
? He just has to make sure there is no mail still in preprocess state. ?

That is even with the big-ext-todo patch (not sure that he needs 
big-ext-todo)