Mail Delivery Delays

Posted Dec. 20, 2005 by: burnside

One (out of five) of our incoming mail servers was targeted over the weekend with a deluge of spam. The result is that the server has around 30,000 messages in the queue and thus the queue on that particular incoming server is taking a LONG time to process. We're working today on splitting the queue out across multiple servers to speed up the delivery, but it will still take at least 24 hours to catch up.