Slow outgoing mail queue.

[Steve Swaney]

Paul,

What does the output of 'mailq' show?

Best regards

Steve
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Steve Swaney
steve at swaney.com
Fort Systems Ltd
www.fsl.com

Paul Simpkin <paul.simpkin at tdguk.com> wrote:

>Thank you all so much for the pointers.
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>Yes I can see Mailscanner is not the problem here. Mailscanner takes the
>email, washes the mail then pop's it in the outgoing queue. 
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>Then Sendmail (for all domains) just sits there for well over 7mins
>before trying to send the queue. Sometimes there can be upto 60+ emails
>waiting.
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>One thing I can see is that only 3 sendmail's are running, 2 of them are
>stuck trying to deliver mail to domain with no DNS. IE dead mail etc.
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>Again thanks for all your help so far!
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>Regards,
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>Paul Simpin
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>From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Stephen
>Swaney
>Sent: 21 February 2011 19:58
>To: MailScanner discussion
>Subject: Re: Slow outgoing mail queue.
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>Paul,
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>Mail sitting in the outbound mail queue is not usually a MailScanner
>problem. 
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>When MailScanner finishes scanning, it passes the message back to
>sendmail for delivery. Only if sendmail can't deliver the message
>immediately does sendmail place the message in the outbound retry mail
>queue.
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>You can see what's in the outbound deferred  mail queue by running:
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>            mailq
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>That should show output similar to:
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>                        /var/spool/mqueue (1 request)
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>-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time-----
>------------Sender/Recipient-----------
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>p1IF3cOE000800     5124 Fri Feb 18 10:03 MAILER-DAEMON
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>                 (Deferred: Connection timed out with
>mail.xxxxsupport.com)
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><Newsalert at xxxxSupport.com>
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>There should be a line for each message that shows the reason why the
>message delivery has been deferred.
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>Best regards,
>
>Steve
>-- 
>Steve Swaney
>steve at fsl.com
>www.fsl.com
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>On Feb 21, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Paul Simpkin wrote:
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>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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>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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