<html><head><base href="x-msg://458/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Paul,<div><br></div><div>Mail sitting in the outbound mail queue is not usually a MailScanner problem. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>You can see what’s in the outbound deferred mail queue by running:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>mailq</div><div><br></div><div>That should show output similar to:</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>/var/spool/mqueue (1 request)</div><div>-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient-----------</div><div>p1IF3cOE000800 5124 Fri Feb 18 10:03 MAILER-DAEMON</div><div> (Deferred: Connection timed out with <a href="http://mail.xxxxsupport.com">mail.xxxxsupport.com</a>)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <<a href="mailto:Newsalert@xxxxSupport.com">Newsalert@xxxxSupport.com</a>></div></div><div><br></div><div>There should be a line for each message that shows the reason why the message delivery has been deferred.</div><div><br></div><div><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#000000" class="f1">Best regards,</font><br><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#000000" class="f1"></font><br><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#000000" class="f1">Steve</font><br><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#000000" class="f1">-- </font><br><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#000000" class="f1">Steve Swaney</font><br><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#000000" class="f1"><a href="mailto:steve@fsl.com">steve@fsl.com</a></font><br><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#000000" class="f1"><a href="http://www.fsl.com">www.fsl.com</a></font><br><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#000000" class="f1">The most accurate and cost effective anti-spam solutions available</font><br></div><div><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#000000" class="f1"><br></font></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 21, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Paul Simpkin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Spam Checks completed at 9620 bytes per second<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Virus Processing completed at 612801 bytes per second<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Deleted 1 messages from processing-database<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Batch completed at 8773 bytes per second (8616 / 0)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Batch (1 message) processed in 0.98 seconds<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: Logging message p1LJ5sAc029339 to SQL<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">Feb 21 19:05:55 mx1 MailScanner[29289]: "Always Looked Up Last" took 0.00 seconds<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">Here is a my version etc:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">Linux<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mx1.tdguk.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">mx1.tdguk.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>2.6.18-194.17.1.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Thu Sep 30 19:27:35 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">This is CentOS release 5.5 (Final)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">This is Perl version 5.008008 (5.8.8)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">This is MailScanner version 4.81.4<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">Hope someone can help.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; ">Paul Simpkin<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; 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