josh wrote:Try it now - the queue is cleared.
Thanks, seems to be working normally again... And I also got ton of messages that were lost. It depends from (SMTP server sending to spamgourmet) how much messages were lost. I mean if they got long or short retry period.
Messages sent from office, got lost (24h retry), but messages sent from home or cell phone came trough (7 day retry).
Unfortunately this is one more hit to reliability of this service. So it's working now, and service has long history. But users shouldn't trust this service too much.
And it seems that spamgourmet mail servers are underpowered, so it's barely handing email load. There isn't too much reserve power to handle possible outages quickly. This isn't nothing new either, same kind of problems often haunt newsgroup servers. If server is one day down, it'll take 7 days to catch up. Because there aren't enough server resources to do it more quickly.
To check if Spamgourmet SMTP server is reachable, simply send email to
-@spamgourmet.com and check how long it takes to bounce. If everything is working as it should. You'll should get mail in less than minute. Altough this isn't perfect method, because queue could also build on output side.