Slow outgoing mail queue.

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Paul.
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 07:13:20PM -0000, Paul Simpkin wrote:
> Hi,
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> I really need some help with Mailscanner or sendmail not sure what one
> is making my mail queue very slow. From the logs I can see that all the
> normal scans are done then the mail just sits in the outgoing queue.
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> Here is where the log file just stops for well over 10mins. I have
> changed the startup script for sendmail and added -q1m but still does
> not help.
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While I don't use Sendmail myself, I noticed that all the log messages you
pasted were MailScanner related, with the possible exception of the one that
writes data out to MySQL. Do you not get any Sendmail log messages at all during
that time period? Have you tried increasing Sendmail's verbosity temporarily to
see if anything may be amiss on the Sendmail side of things? 
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> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Spam Checks completed at 9620
> bytes per second
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> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
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> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Virus Processing completed at
> 612801 bytes per second
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> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Deleted 1 messages from
> processing-database
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> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Batch completed at 8773 bytes
> per second (8616 / 0)
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> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Batch (1 message) processed in
> 0.98 seconds
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> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Logging message p1LJ5sAc029339
> to SQL
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> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: "Always Looked Up Last" took
> 0.00 seconds
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> Here is a my version etc:
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> Linux mx1.tdguk.com 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Thu Sep 30
> 19:27:35 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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> This is CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
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> This is Perl version 5.008008 (5.8.8)
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> This is MailScanner version 4.81.4
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> Hope someone can help.
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> Regards,
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> Paul Simpkin
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-- 
Igor
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