Re: svr1 mail timeouts ...

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>
>> Any idea what's using up all those connections? 91 *incoming* connections
>> is very much, especially since the box doesn't exactly *receive* a lot of
>> mails (it sends a whole lot, but that's a different limit).
>
> Of course it receives alot ... as an example ...
>
> pgsql-announce has 31388 subscribers to it ... when David sends out the weekly
> news, how many of those 31388 are "over quota", or "out of office", or "user
> unknown", or "connection timed out", or ... :)
>
> All those bounces come back to the main server, and, in alot of cases, get
> processed by majordomo's "bounce detection" algorithms ...
>
> And then there are the 177 314 "Recipient address rejected" email attempts
> *into* the server so far today, for ppl like "EarlineloamyDarby(at)postgresql(dot)org"
> that come flooding in ...
>
> It all adds up ...

D'oh. I only considered protocol errors, not that kind of bounces. That
explains it.

//Magnus