Slow mail delivery for few mails

[kunal verma]

The problem still persist but i think that it is a sendmail/procmail
problem.

Following is the log for mails which had delay of about 20 mins in mail
delivery:


Jul 29 11:14:40 dak sendmail[6527]: p6T5ieeZ006527: from=<
vsrao at something.com>, size=1520, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<008801cc4db4$37ad5460$7f1113ac at nfce8b77d1c360>, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=[Ip address]****

Jul 29 11:16:58 dak sendmail[6569]: p6T5ieeZ006527: timeout waiting for
input from local during Draining Input****


Jul 29 11:14:40 dak sendmail[6527]: p6T5ieeZ006527: from=<vsrao@
something.com >, size=1520, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<008801cc4db4$37ad5460$7f1113ac at nfce8b77d1c360>, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=[ip address]****

Jul 29 11:16:58 dak sendmail[6569]: p6T5ieeZ006527: timeout waiting for
input from local during Draining Input


please help me if you can figure out what could be the problem.


Kunal Verma

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:15 AM, kunal verma <kunal.gurukul at gmail.com>wrote:

> thanks for help.
> I run the command:
> MailScanner --lint
> It was showing some errors in spamassasin.pref.conf file.
> i have modified this file and now it is not showing any errors.
> I hope this solves my problem.
> Thanks for help again.
>
> Kunal Verma
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 28 July 2011 12:50, kunal verma <kunal.gurukul at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I have configured MailScanner to use Sendmail8.13 as MTA and Kaspersky
>> for
>> > virus scanning. It is working fine most of the time but with slow mail
>> > delivery for some mails.
>> > Some mails remain in the queue(mqueue directory) for a long period of
>> time.
>> > Some mails remain in the mqueue.in directory for a long period of time.
>> > The mail delivery is does not take place for hours. If I manually run
>> the
>> > command to clear the mailq(sendmail -q0) then also mails are not
>> delivered
>> > and remain in the queue. though it is delivered after this delay.
>> > Please if anyone could trace the problem and let me know the solution.
>> > Kunal Verma
>>
>> The "mqueue" directory is the "outgoing" directory as per MailScanners
>> point of view, which means that the reason for specific mails to be
>> held up there would be solely a sendmail problem, not MailScanner as
>> such.I suspect that you would see the reason if you traced one of the
>> "offenders" in your logs, or that the mailq command may show it...
>> Most cases it'd probably be the destination MTA returning a 4xx code
>> (temporary failure, try again later).
>>
>> The mqueue.in" catalog problem messages would be more of a MailScanner
>> thing... the queue files will suiit there until MailScanner is done
>> with 'em, so a very long pause here may indicate a problem. What does
>> "MailScanner --lint" show  you? If you run "MailScanner --debug" (with
>> only a problem message in the queue), what does that tell you?
>> Apart from that, it's impossible to say more without log info (a clear
>> trail of one message, perhaps with a little chunk of extra lines
>> around it).
>>
>> Cheers!
>> --
>> -- Glenn
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