[Building Sakai] James configuration

[Yuji Shinozaki]

In production, we too have a local MTA (in our case Postfix) spool the  
incoming and outgoing mail.  It relieves Sakai/james from alot of mail  
handling issues.

Here's a confluence page about setting up an MTA with Sakai:

http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/y6c

yuji
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On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:53 AM, SOO KIM wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> We saw the similar issue with our mail server configuration. We  
> ended up with setting up a sendmail in other linux and configure it  
> to accept as many as 500 connections for our school (about 5000  
> active users). I believe... 30 max connections is too low for any  
> size production.
>
> SOO IL KIM
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Daniel Merino <daniel.merino at unavarra.es 
> > wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> We have problems with James. Sometimes the mailarchive stops working  
> and it gives us the next error in the logs:
>
> 24/03/09 12:34:55 WARN  connections: Maximum number of open  
> connections exceeded - refusing connection.  Current number of  
> connections is 30
>
> In the file /home/sinfo/sakai_2-5-3/mailarchive/mailarchive-james/ 
> james/src/webapp/apps/james/SAR-INF/config.xml we have 30  
> connections allowed.
>
> <connections>
>       <idle-timeout>300000</idle-timeout>
>       <max-connections>30</max-connections>
>    </connections>
>
> We don't know if maybe this is a low value for the number of  
> connections or if James doesn't free properly these connections.
>
> Could somebody tell me how can we configurate correctly this  
> parameter?
> Thanks in advance.
> -- 
> Daniel Merino
> daniel.merino at unavarra.es
> Gestor de teleformación - Centro Superior de Innovación Educativa.
> Tfno: 948-168489 - Universidad Pública de Navarra.
> --
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> tener imaginación. (Perich)
>
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Yuji Shinozaki
Sr. Technical Lead/Project Manager
University of Virginia
Advanced Technologies Group
ys2n at virginia.edu
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