Slow outgoing mail queue.

[Julian Field]

What is "Delivery Method" set to in MailScanner.conf? It should be 
"batch", certainly not "queue" which would give you the symptoms you're 
seeing.

Jules.

On 22/02/2011 09:00, Paul Simpkin wrote:
>
> Thank you all so much for the pointers.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Again thanks for all your help so far!
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul Simpin
>
> *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.
>
> Paul,
>
> Mail sitting in the outbound mail queue is not usually a MailScanner 
> problem.
>
> 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.
>
> You can see what’s in the outbound deferred mail queue by running:
>
> mailq
>
> That should show output similar to:
>
> /var/spool/mqueue (1 request)
>
> -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- 
> ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
>
> p1IF3cOE000800 5124 Fri Feb 18 10:03 MAILER-DAEMON
>
> (Deferred: Connection timed out with mail.xxxxsupport.com 
> <http://mail.xxxxsupport.com>)
>
> <Newsalert at xxxxSupport.com <mailto:Newsalert at xxxxSupport.com>>
>
> There should be a line for each message that shows the reason why the 
> message delivery has been deferred.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Steve
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> On Feb 21, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Paul Simpkin wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Spam Checks completed at 9620 
> bytes per second
>
> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
>
> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Virus Processing completed at 
> 612801 bytes per second
>
> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Deleted 1 messages from 
> processing-database
>
> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Batch completed at 8773 bytes 
> per second (8616 / 0)
>
> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Batch (1 message) processed in 
> 0.98 seconds
>
> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Logging message p1LJ5sAc029339 
> to SQL
>
> Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: "Always Looked Up Last" took 
> 0.00 seconds
>
> Here is a my version etc:
>
> Linuxmx1.tdguk.com 
> <http://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
>
> This is CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
>
> This is Perl version 5.008008 (5.8.8)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.81.4
>
> Hope someone can help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul Simpkin
>
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