Archive for May, 2006

qmail queue size

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

qmail is one of the most popular MTA’s in the world. I am addicted to it since I found lifewithqmail.org, an step-by-step guide on installing qmail.

There are some tools that let you work with qmail’s queue (qmail-qread, qmHandle, etc.), but none of them gives you an idea of the amount of data queued for sending. This is an issue when you have your own server in your home network because the overall perfomance of your Internet connection will be affected by the traffic waiting to be sent in the MTA’s queue.

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