[cobalt-users] Re: Does restarting mail server lose mail ? (RaQ3)

[momsadmin <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yes you are correct, while the server is unavailable the remote servers
will
> queue then deliver. Try it out, add yourself an alias, wait for failure
then
> mail youself!
>
> BUT, i'd determine why the mail server is doing this, I've got a RaQ3i
here
> that has 31 uptime so far and runs quite a busy email/web service on it.
> Have you checked /var/log/maillog before/after the problem to see whats
wrong.
> Can you ssh in while its down? Try telnetting to the server on port 25 and
> see what error you get.

It only does this after I've sent an announcement to my mailing list (not a
RaQ mailing list, I use Eudora/Access/Word for an email merge).  I send
messages out to about 80,000-100,000 of my customers over the course of 4-5
days, so I presume it overloads the mail server. I generally send about
4,000 and then give the server a "rest" for a while before I send the next
4,000.  I haven't looked at the cause, because to be honest, I thought *I*
was the reason it was failing.