[KLUG Members] sendmail question

[bert]

Chet,

Reading my email back, I realize I did not mention that this happens on
the server where the email is suppossed the reach its final destination.

The user 'marleen at flex.nl' is on the server where I found this log. This
means there is another server contacting 'flex.nl' in an attempt to
deliver an email to user 'marleen'. Then sendmail on 'flex.nl' records a
delay of 4:46... but procmail only uses one second?

Is sendmail starting this time count at the moment the remote server is
contacting and the count is stopped when the whole email is arrived.
That must be some email that takes that long!
There is also some spam-filter running, could this be the cause , i.e.
the spam-filter daemon fails? But if so why is xdelay than just one second?

I am left in the dark here.


Chester Wisniewski wrote:
>Bert,
>It is likely the remote host was down when this message was attempted to
>be delivered. If the remote server TEMPFAILS a connection, sendmail will
>retry to deliver in 15 minutes. It will do this 3 times, then it goes
>into a undeliverable state where it will try every 4 hours, up to four
>days before it simply does a bounce. If the remote host was down for say
>an hour around the time this message was sent you would see a delay of
>almost exactly 4 Hours and 45 mins... or in your case 4:46:33.
>
>Does this seem plausible?
>
>Chet
>
>
>klug wrote:
>  
>>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.
>>
>>
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