sendmail sits in queue for exactly 1hr
sendmail sits in queue for exactly 1hr
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Hi
My knowledge of sendmail is very limited so please excuse me.
$ uname -a
SunOS nimrod 5.10 Generic_144488-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440
When I run the following on server it sits in the mailq for exactly 1 hr before we receive anything. This is exactly 1 hr every time. Was wondering if there are any settings which would be causing this.
mail -s "test from NIMROD" pdg@consulting.com
hello im a test email sent at 13:49
$ mailq
/var/spool/mqueue (1 request)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
pA1DnHgE006190* 37 Tue Nov 1 13:49 <oratest@slo.gov.uk>
<pdg@consulting.com>
Total requests: 1
This sits in the mailq for 1 hr.
Any help/pointers would be greatly appreciated
Sy UK
My knowledge of sendmail is very limited so please excuse me.
$ uname -a
SunOS nimrod 5.10 Generic_144488-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440
When I run the following on server it sits in the mailq for exactly 1 hr before we receive anything. This is exactly 1 hr every time. Was wondering if there are any settings which would be causing this.
mail -s "test from NIMROD" pdg@consulting.com
hello im a test email sent at 13:49
$ mailq
/var/spool/mqueue (1 request)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
pA1DnHgE006190* 37 Tue Nov 1 13:49 <oratest@slo.gov.uk>
<pdg@consulting.com>
Total requests: 1
This sits in the mailq for 1 hr.
Any help/pointers would be greatly appreciated
Sy UK
RE: sendmail sits in queue for exactly 1hr
root 14010 1 0 15:19:51 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bl -q15m
root 19931 1 0 10:23:31 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bl -q15m
Sy UK
RE: sendmail sits in queue for exactly 1hr
Is the load average on your system high? There is a very conservative default setting in sendmail where it doesn't relay emails if the load average is above 8 I think (a ridiculously small number on large multiprocessor systems).
Try running /usr/lib/sendmail -q -ox80 -v, which overrides that value to 80. Do pending emails get dequeued immediately?
Annihilannic
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RE: sendmail sits in queue for exactly 1hr
This is not due to clock change as happened prior time diff. Good thinking tho..
Not exactly hour now as got one in 53min.
Doing some comparison on other servers. Cant figure out what the "bl" switch means. Cant seem to find anyware. I understand -bd is deamon but cannot find -bl
Any ideas
smmsp 782 1 0 Nov 01 ? 0:01 /usr/lib/sendmail -Ac -q15m
oratest 14405 914 0 10:30:55 pts/2 0:00 grep send
root 19931 1 0 Nov 01 ? 0:07 /usr/lib/sendmail -bl -q15m
thanks for your help
Sy UK
RE: sendmail sits in queue for exactly 1hr
Annihilannic
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