Local mail to root always takes longer to deliver!

[Michael Freeman]

Why is it that local mail, mostly mail sent by the system to a root
account or to an admin account, does it go though a number of failure
before its finally delivered. I always see this with mail being delivered
by MailScanner to the root user on the localhost.

 

Eg;

 

2005-06-17 00:03:05 1Dj84P-0002Ku-Gw <= root at srv07.efastservers.com
U=root P=local S=20589

2005-06-17 00:03:05 1Dj84P-0002Kv-Hr <= root at srv07.efastservers.com
U=root P=local S=4251

2005-06-17 00:03:05 1Dj84P-0002Kv-Hr == root at srv07.efastservers.com
R=defer_router defer (-1): All deliveries are handled by MailScanner

2005-06-17 00:03:05 1Dj84P-0002Kv-Hr ** root at srv07.efastservers.com:
retry timeout exceeded

2005-06-17 00:03:05 1Dj84P-0002Ky-ME <= <> R=1Dj84P-0002Kv-Hr U=mailnull
P=local S=5145

2005-06-17 00:03:05 1Dj84P-0002Ky-ME == root at srv07.efastservers.com
R=defer_router defer (-1): All deliveries are handled by MailScanner

2005-06-17 00:03:05 1Dj84P-0002Ky-ME ** root at srv07.efastservers.com:
retry timeout exceeded

2005-06-17 00:03:05 1Dj84P-0002Ky-ME root at srv07.efastservers.com: error
ignored

2005-06-17 00:03:05 1Dj84P-0002Ky-ME Completed

2005-06-17 00:03:05 1Dj84P-0002Kv-Hr Completed

 

Finally it arrives. This happens every single time. Whats the reason that
it happens with system mail? There have been times we never received the
mail.

 

Thank you.

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