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Re: Serious E-mail issue resolved
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Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:54:22 GMT
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Hi again,

this is to inform you that the mail system status is back to normal, remaining
backlog being at approx. 100-120 messages which is the normal level we get with
all the incoming spam.

I have changed spam handling to the point that spam is now deleted very early in
the processing chain in order to decrease system load. There is also a new
watchdog script in place that will alert us whenever processing slows down to a
critical extent. This should help us avoid issues like the recent one in the
future.

Thanks for your continued patience and understanding.

Jerry



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  Re: Serious E-mail issue resolved
 
Since I think you may all want an update on this: While the mail server is actually done with working through the large backlog of incoming and outgoing mails, there are now some 15,000 mails waiting to be checked for spam and then processed by the (...) (17 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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