[NTLUG:Discuss] why does the mail server stop working over and over again

[MadHat]

On May 3, 2005, at 10:43 PM, Rick Cook wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 May 2005 11:17, MadHat wrote:
>> On May 3, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Chris Cox wrote:
>>> Jack Snodgrass wrote:
>>>> They mail server seems to stop working for multiple days once or
>>>> more pre month. What's worng with it? Is there one person that is
>>>> too busy to notice that it's broke ( again )
>>>> Is it a hardware issue
>>>> Is it a software issue There is a bottleneck here someplace.
>>>
>>> Not sure.  I guess what we need is somebody with some time
>>> to look into this.  Send me an email at ccox at ntlug.org if
>>> you believe you are the person to admin the server.
>>
>> Spam and viruses are a big problem.  The mail server gets hammered all
>> the time and gets backed up trying to deal with it all.
>
> We also have a large number of undeliverable addresses still on the
> mailing list that are not "auto-delisted" very well. Every so often, 
> the
> smtp-server attempts to deliver some portion of that list of "frozen"
> messages. Some of those email addresses are for currently nonexistent
> domains add still more delay cycles in the process.

I'll see if I can take some time to go through the user list and clean 
this up.