Opened 3 years ago

Closed 3 years ago

#24 closed task (fixed)

Exim Mailqueue

Reported by: chris Owned by: chris
Priority: major Milestone: Maintenance
Component: drupal Version:
Keywords: Cc: jenny, gillian
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Description (last modified by chris)

Yesterday a CRINmail newsletter was sent out (see also ticket:14#comment:5) and there are currently 245 emails stuck in the mail queue on Crin2, these are probably undeliverable addresses and there should be a way to mark them so and perhaps disable sending emails to these addresses in the future.

In addition as the queue is greater that 100 it is resulting in Munin sending a alert email every 5 mins, this threshold needs increasing to prevent these emails.


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Changed 3 years ago by chris

comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by chris

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The default configuration for the Exim Mailqueue in in the script, /usr/share/munin/plugins/exim_mailqueue:

  [exim_mailqueue]
    env.graphtitle Exim Mailqueue
    env.exiqgrep  <autodetected>
    env.queuewarn 100
    env.queuecrit 200
    env.frozenwarn 100
    env.frozencrit 200

I have overridden these by adding the following to /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node:

[exim_mailqueue]
group adm, (Debian-exim)
env.queuewarn 300
env.queuecrit 600
env.frozenwarn 100
env.frozencrit 200

And munin-node was restarted.

This will stop the current queue from resulting in a email alert every 5 mins.

comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by chris

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

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