[Building Sakai] James configuration

[Michael Wenk]

David Horwitz wrote:
> Hi
> 
> +1 you should set up you local MTA to accept slightly more connections 
> than you have tomcat threads. Also you probably want to still keep low 
> the threshold that the MTA will accept mail but not send it on to you 
> institutional mail server. We have ours set to:
> 
> #queue resources
> smtp_accept_max=250
> smtp_accept_queue=25
> 
> This is exim but other MTA's like postfix and sendmail should have 
> options that do the same.
> 
> David
> 


Any idea why this works?

I enabled debugging on James, and during normal operation for 
production, it uses at most 2 threads on our normal mail server.

What really seemed to make our problem go away is to use a non load 
balanced instance for mail.

Mike