How do I speed up delivery of outbound SMTP mail destined to the Internet? Whenever anyone send an email that is destined to go outside the Lotus realm and out onto the internet, it seems like the mail waits for a very, very long time before the router task passes it on to my Internet smtp relay/firewall/gateway unix box… sometimes as long as half an hour or more before it leaves the Domino server and I see it come across my sendmail logfile on the unix box.
Is there some tuneable config parameter that will tell Domino server to process the outgoing mail queue immediately whenever X number of outbound messages have queued up or after X number of minutes have elapsed since one has arrived in the queue? I’ve tried looking all over all the config documents, in the help files and even searched the forums and Google and can’t find anything obvious for this. Help please?
Subject: How to speed up outgoing SMTP mail?
Do you have a server Connection document of Type SMTP to the Internet?
That is one place where restrictions may be.
In R5:
Domino Directory
Configuration
Messaging
Connections
Subject: How to speed up outgoing SMTP mail?
Neal, yes this is tunable. No, there’s no inherent reason why your Domino server should be holding on to mail. Queueing is an option, not an enforced rule.
Look in your connection records from your SMTP server. Also look in your domain documents.
If you really have so much traffic that it’s just that long a queue, you can run multiple router instances.
Subject: Thanks!
I did not have a connection document for SMTP.Only had the “Messaging Settings” document with the smtp configs on those pages. Back when I took the training classes for Domino implementation and admin, the instructor taught us that “connection documents” were only intended for establishing communication from one domino server to another domino server for replication and nrpc mail traffic and that all incoming and outgoing smtp traffic would be governed by the parms on the “messaging settings” screens. Even the official Lotus Education student guide book I have in front of me right now is very skimpy on details about using a separate SMTP connection document, but elaborates considerably on the smtp basics in the server document.
Subject: How to speed up outgoing SMTP mail?
Yes there is a tunable parameter. You can specifify for the router to wait for a minimum number of documents in the mailbox before it routes the contents to the other servers mailbox. Look in the connnection document.