Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:37:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail delivery Q Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960903213603.431D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199609031221.OAA09999@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > My professor came to me today saying that his collaboration members > were complaining that they (some of them) received mail from him > with an 8 hour delay. He asked me how come and I looked into > /var/maillog where I could find that he sent said mail at 12:25. > The recipients were some users@host and somealias@domain. > The users@host received their mail immediately. Only the aliased (at the > destination) recipients were suffering from that long delay. > > As I understand, sendmail resolves the host and contacts the host's > sendmail directly to deliver the mail, right? What happens in the case of > the host portion actually isn't a host but a domain? Does sendmail > send to the smart host (DS macro)? Or does it deliver to the host > specified by the MX record in the nameserver if the nameserver has a > MX entry? Not sure. I would assume that if a MX record exists it is followed. > I'm trying to locate where the enormous delay came from. Can it be seen > from the headers at the receiving site? I would imagine so, by following the timestamps and the hops the message took. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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