Sendmail delay

[Curtis Whitworth]

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??

[Curtis Whitworth]

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

[someone_4]

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

[someone_4]

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

[Clemens van Everdingen]

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.

[someone_4]

Take a look at this doc.

Richard