Email Performance

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I have a VPS with multiple accounts. My sites are loading fine, but email is very slow (over the past few days). My queue isn't any larger than usual (except for the frozen ones!). Would upgrading my server solve the performance of the email (I'm thinking Hybrid) or is there a deeper issue here? RAM is at 25% most of the time. Resources range from 5% to 50%. Thanks for any help!
 
You don't give us enough information. The settings in DirectAdmin's exim.conf file are reasonable for most of us, but they can certainly be tweaked. Generally slow incoming and outgoing delivery is caused by large queue size, but not always.

Jeff
 
Queue

Hey, thanks for the response.

I did upgrade to a hybrid and the performance is much improved over the VPS. I'll see Monday when it hits a full email load if that did the trick. Generally, my queue would stack up to five or so pages of mail by the end of the day with about 90% of that frozen mail. I'd say I have about 100 email accounts maximum across clients' accounts. I've wondered if that amount of mail in the queue is common with that many users. The frozen mail is obviously spam (sent to bogus users).

Is there a way to make exim simply reject emails that aren't in the system?

Thanks for the great forum . . . and the great CP. Been using 2 years now.
 
You write that you're using the DirectAdmin control panel, but exim as configured by DirectAdmin doesn't accept email unless the user exists. Which version of the exim.conf file are you using? The version number should be near the top of the file.

Jeff
 
Exim File

Sorry for the late response. Here is the header at the top of my current exim.conf file:

######################################################################
# SpamBlocker.exim.conf.2.0-release #
# Runtime configuration file for DirectAdmin/Exim 4.24 and above #
 
That version of the exim.conf file will NOT accept email if the user doesn't exist. Check to see if the domain in question has catchall turned on. Having catchall turned on makes every user exist. Turn it off.

Jeff
 
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