{Disarmed} Re: {Spam?} {Disarmed} Re: Sendmail email delays

[Derek Ragona]

At 07:49 PM 8/15/2008, Tom Stuart wrote:
>I have tried doing the forwarding via /etc/mail/aliases and it worked 
>identically as it was with the /root/.forward. The mail does go through 
>but gets delayed 5+ minutes, however when I send mail interactively using 
>mailx or mail commands the receiving mailserver receives the message instantly.
>
>I'd also like to add that if I restart sendmail via /etc/rc.d/sendmail 
>restart the mail gets instantly received also...Thanks for the help thus far

Check your sendmail options in /etc/rc.conf and if you don't have any 
there, check the defaults.  Usually you are running two versions of 
sendmail.  Check the sendmail flags you are using for something like 
-q5m.  If you see this, try changing the value and see if that effects your 
delivery time.

         -Derek



>On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Derek Ragona 
><<mailto:derek at computinginnovations.com>derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
>>At 03:49 PM 8/15/2008, Tom Stuart wrote:
>>>I've been having trouble sending email that was sent via a process(swatch).
>>>I can send emails fine via command-line and receive immediately to the
>>>forwarded address. However when sent via swatch it can take 5-10 minutes.
>>>These entries appear in /var/log/mailllog. Note this is all relating to the
>>>same email and notice the 11 minute delay. Thanks in advance for any help.
>>>
>>>Aug 15 14:35:12 firewall-1 sendmail[72747]: m7FKZCXf072747: from=username,
>>>size=155, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<
>>><mailto:200808152035.m7FKZCXf072747 at firewall-1.xxx.com>200808152035.m7FKZCXf072747 at firewall-1.xxx.com>, 
>>>relay=root at l
>>>ocalhost
>>>Aug 15 14:35:12 firewall-1 sendmail[72747]: m7FKZCXf072747: to=root,
>>>delay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30155, stat=queued
>>>Aug 15 14:43:18 firewall-1 sendmail[72762]: m7FKhHx8072762: from=username,
>>>size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, relay=root at localhost
>>>Aug 15 14:46:03 firewall-1 sm-mta[72794]: m7FKk3wc072794: from=<
>>><mailto:username at firewall-1.xxx.com>username at firewall-1.xxx.com>, 
>>>size=512, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<
>>><mailto:200808152035.m7FKZCXf072747 at firewall-1.xxx.com>200808152035.m7FKZCXf072747 at firewall-1.xxx.com>, 
>>>proto=ESMTP,
>>>daemon=Daemon0, relay=localhost [<http://127.0.0.1>MailScanner warning: 
>>>numerical links are often malicious:<http://127.0.0.1> 127.0.0.1]
>>>Aug 15 14:46:03 firewall-1 sm-msp-queue[72793]: m7FKZCXf072747: to=root,
>>>ctladdr=username (1001/1001), delay=00:10:51, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
>>>pri=120155, relay=[<http://127.0.0.1>MailScanner warning: numerical 
>>>links are often malicious:<http://127.0.0.1> 127.0.0.1
>>>] [<http://127.0.0.1>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often 
>>>malicious:<http://127.0.0.1> 127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent 
>>>(m7FKk3wc072794 Message accepted for
>>>delivery)
>>>Aug 15 14:46:03 firewall-1 sm-mta[72795]: m7FKk3wc072794: to=
>>><mailto:username at xxx.com>username at xxx.com, 
>>>ctladdr=<<mailto:username at firewall-1.xxx.com>username at firewall-1.xxx.com> 
>>>  (1001/1001),
>>>delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:0
>>>0:00, mailer=relay, pri=30809, relay=<http://smtp.xxx.com>smtp.xxx.com. 
>>>[<http://10.0.0.2>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often 
>>>malicious:<http://10.0.0.2> 10.0.0.2], dsn=2.0.0,
>>>stat=Sent ( 
>>><<mailto:200808152035.m7FKZCXf072747 at firewall-1.xxx.com>200808152035.m7FKZCXf072747 at firewall-1.xxx.com> 
>>>Queued mail for
>>>delivery)
>>>
>>>
>>>I think its important to know these details:
>>>firewall-1# uname -a
>>>FreeBSD <http://firewall-1.xxx.com>firewall-1.xxx.com 7.0-RC1 FreeBSD 
>>>7.0-RC1 #2: Tue Feb  5 07:10:05
>>>MST 2008     root at firewall-1.xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FIREWALL-1  i386
>>>
>>>There is a .forward file in /root to forward root's mail to
>>>username at xxx.comwhich is to be sent via smarthost.
>>>
>>>
>>>I have the smarthost "DS" parameter in 
>>>/etc/mail/<http://sendmail.cf>sendmail.cf configured to
>>>use <http://DSsmtp.xxx.com>DSsmtp.xxx.com
>>>
>>>/etc/hosts contains
>>>localhost             <http://127.0.0.1>MailScanner warning: numerical 
>>>links are often malicious:<http://127.0.0.1> 127.0.0.1 firewall-1 
>>><http://firewall-1.xxx.com>firewall-1.xxx.com
>>><http://smtp.xxx.com>smtp.xxx.com     <http://10.0.0.2>MailScanner 
>>>warning: numerical links are often malicious:<http://10.0.0.2> 10.0.0.2
>>
>>Have you tried changing the alias for root to the forwarded address in 
>>/etc/mail/aliases?  You can make the change there and rebuild the aliases file.
>>
>>         -Derek
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