delay in sending after restart

[Erik van der Leun]

Hi,

I've seen it more often, that after a restart of MailScanner, it takes
quite a while before mails actually get sent out... Mail is accepted, 
mail is scanned... but not sent through.

It took about 2 minutes before the first mail really got sent out.
This doesn't always occur at a restart though... not even that often either.

What can I do to debug this process... to see what MailScanner is waiting
for? (I'd rather not interrupt the mailflow in this though, it is a production
server after all :> )

Most interesting bit of this mail is now finished... for those who care
read on :)

Kind regards,
Erik van der Leun

The machine has quite enough resources...:
  - hyperthreading Intel Xeon 2800 processor
  - 1GB of RAM

Other noteworthy issues:

I use gentoo, with init scripts of the following url
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36060 
(Gentoo doesn't have a maintainer yet for MailScanner, thus it's still
here)

Not really interesting maybe, but here is the only output of these 
initscripts.

  * Stopping MailScanner...
  * checking MTA availability for MailScanner...
  * Stopping incoming sendmail...
  * Stopping outgoing sendmail...

  * checking MTA availability for MailScanner...
  * Starting incoming sendmail...
  * Starting outgoing sendmail...
  * Starting MailScanner...