[KLUG Members] sendmail question

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Hi All,

I have a sendmail question.


I found the following message in one of the maillog files:

May 8 14:47:54 srv949 sm-scanner[12270]: k4881LhD012248:
to=<marleen at flex.nl>, delay=*04:46:33,* xdelay=00:00:01,
mailer=virthostmail, pri=1454188, relay=flex.nl, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
(k48Clr2j001374 Message accepted for delivery)

Searching for what delay= means gave me:

This period of time starts when /sendmail/ first receives the message
and ends when the message is finally delivered or bounced.

The |xdelay=| equate shows the total amount of time the message took to
be transmitted during final delivery.


I don't understand this, why does an email take more that 4 hour to be
delivered while procmail drops in in 1 second in the mailbox. What does
the delay= really mean, is this the time sendmail needs the get the
message 'onboard' so the sender needs this time to transmit it?

And more important is this a problem on my email server or is the sender
just being slow?


Tanks in advance,


Bert.