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>> Used to run exim but exim got flaky on days with more than 50.000
>> messages and got fits managing huge message queues.
>
>	A task that may become laborous for ZMailers too, but not THAT
>	difficult as to most other MTAs...  :-)

I have gotten around 60.000 messages per day in the last days and Zmail
handled it fine.

>> Where can I find documentation what thes HQ QA etc abbreviations in the
>> Queue display mean? I really like the output of "mailq -Q" but it would be
>> better if I knew the details.
>	"From the Source" is not acceptable answer ?
>	Ok, 'man mailq' should have it, but I haven't gotten around, so
>	here is the short version:

I will sent diffs to you that change the mailq manpage.

>> How can I force the delivery of a message immediately and see whats going
>> on?
>
>	With SMTP by issueing command:
>
>		ETRN some.com
>
>	(for above examples..)

By telnetting to port 25??? Danger danger...

>> Exim had a nice daily status report. Does something similar exist for
>> Zmailer?
>
>	I know several scripts in existence, and now ZMailer produces pretty
>	much similar syslogs to that of the sendmail.  Thus  sendmail's scripts
>	are fairly easily modifiable..

The diffs include a "zmailstats" program which is the reworked
exim status program.

>> I packaged Zmailer as a debian package. Its available from
>>   ftp://lalug.org/debian_local
>> (Hope that is ok?)
>
>	Yes.

Ok. Zmail will be released into the Debian Experimental distribution in an
hour or so. Also available now from ftp.fuller.edu:/Linux

Example zmailstats output:

Zmailer statistics from 1997-05-18 06:51:57 to 1997-05-19 07:14:20

Grand total summary
-------------------
                                                       At least one address
  TOTAL               Volume    Messages    Hosts      Delayed       Failed
  Received            6033KB         686        3      10  1.5%     10  1.5%
  Delivered           1032MB       59612     1380

Deliveries by transport
-----------------------
                      Volume    Messages
  smtp                1032MB       59612

Messages received per hour (each dot is 5 messages)
---------------------------------------------------

00-01      6 .
01-02      1 
02-03     15 ...
03-04     54 ..........
04-05     53 ..........
05-06     47 .........
06-07    231 ..............................................
07-08     25 .....
08-09     16 ...
09-10     27 .....
10-11     18 ...
11-12     13 ..
12-13     23 ....
13-14     22 ....
14-15      7 .
15-16     18 ...
16-17     21 ....
17-18     22 ....
18-19     11 ..
19-20      0 
20-21     39 .......
21-22      7 .
22-23      7 .
23-24      3 

Deliveries per hour (each dot is 130 deliveries)
------------------------------------------------

00-01   1470 ...........
01-02    464 ...
02-03   1747 .............
03-04   6484 .................................................
04-05   6004 ..............................................
05-06   5438 .........................................
06-07   3824 .............................
07-08   3545 ...........................
08-09    774 .....
09-10   3154 ........................
10-11   3084 .......................
11-12   2056 ...............
12-13   2641 ....................
13-14   2139 ................
14-15    739 .....
15-16   4323 .................................
16-17   3908 ..............................
17-18   1588 ............
18-19    804 ......
19-20    104 
20-21   1575 ............
21-22   2428 ..................
22-23   1167 ........
23-24    152 .

Time spent on the queue: all messages
-------------------------------------

Under   1m        2  20.0%   20.0%
        5m        3  30.0%   50.0%
       15m        3  30.0%   80.0%
       30m        2  20.0%  100.0%

Time spent on the queue: messages with at least one remote delivery
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Under   1m        2  20.0%   20.0%
        5m        3  30.0%   50.0%
       15m        3  30.0%   80.0%
       30m        2  20.0%  100.0%

Relayed messages
----------------

 3435 vger.rutgers.edu  => mail.hotmail.com
 2970 vger.rutgers.edu  => future.futsoft.com
 1358 vger.rutgers.edu  => mx1.pobox.com

...

Total: 59566 (plus 0 unshown)

Top 50 sending hosts by message count
-------------------------------------

  485  5491664   vger.rutgers.edu
  199   684033   local
    2     1597   hur-s0.fuller.edu

Top 50 sending hosts by volume
------------------------------

  485  5491664   vger.rutgers.edu
  199   684033   local
    2     1597   hur-s0.fuller.edu

Top 50 local senders by message count
-------------------------------------

  150   553512   root
   48   129697   daemon
    1      824   list

Top 50 local senders by volume
------------------------------

  150   553512   root
   48   129697   daemon
    1      824   list

Top 50 destinations by message count
------------------------------------

 3435 44768589   mail.hotmail.com
 2970 30983663   future.futsoft.com
 1358 24588644   mx1.pobox.com
  825 12540415   mail.geocities.com

...

Top 50 destinations by volume
-----------------------------

 3435 44768589   mail.hotmail.com
 2970 30983663   future.futsoft.com
 1358 24588644   mx1.pobox.com

...

Top 50 local destinations by message count
------------------------------------------


Top 50 local destinations by volume
-----------------------------------


List of errors
--------------

  180 ^M<<- .^M->> 554 [ Arg list too long ] Input line to submit
      longer than 254 character

   33 ^M<<- .^M->> 554 [ No such file or directory ] Input line
      to submit longer than 254 character

   16 ^M<<- RCPT To:<TCHJR@juno.com> ORCPT=rfc822;TCHJR@JUNO.COM^M->>
      552 <TCHJR@juno.com>... Mail quota exceede

  193 ^M<<- RCPT To:<jcc2@juno.com> ORCPT=rfc822;jcc2@juno.com^M->>
      552 <jcc2@juno.com>... Mail quota exceede


   34 smtp; 500 (DNS: no such domain: jo.hackery.com

...

Errors encountered: 681
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