topic Re: Sendmail delay in Operating System - HP-UX

Sendmail delay

Curtis Whitworth — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:37:05 GMT

Attached is copy of mail.log. I would like to find out why there was an 1.30 hr delay in delivering mail to recipient??

Re: Sendmail delay

Curtis Whitworth — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:40:54 GMT

Sorry, wrong category. I'll repost in messaging. Thanks.

Re: Sendmail delay

someone_4 — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:41:15 GMT

Are your emails sitting in the mail queue?
run
#mailq
if you have allot of messages in your mailq
then run
#sendmail -q -v
this will clear out your messages.

Richard

Re: Sendmail delay

someone_4 — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:44:01 GMT

in my /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
I have this set for 5 minutes.

# minimum time in queue before retry
O MinQueueAge=15m

MinQueueAge=age
[no short name] Don't process any queued jobs that have been in the queue less than the indicated time interval. This is intended to allow you to get responsiveness by processing the queue fairly frequently without thrashing your system by trying jobs too often. The default units are minutes.

Richard

Re: Sendmail delay

Clemens van Everdingen — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:46:40 GMT

Hi,

Has the load of your system been very high between this time ?
Sendmail stops working if the load is above some point.
This is somewhere in the sendmail.cf file.

C.

Re: Sendmail delay

someone_4 — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:49:08 GMT

Take a look at this doc.

Richard