Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:22:43 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Tom Stuart" <freebsdemail@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail email delays Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080815192128.024bf890@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <5cdef660808151349j462df140pcec0d76109ac17b3@mail.gmail.com > References: <5cdef660808151349j462df140pcec0d76109ac17b3@mail.gmail.com>
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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=<
>200808152035.m7FKZCXf072747@firewall-1.xxx.com>, relay=root@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@localhost
>Aug 15 14:46:03 firewall-1 sm-mta[72794]: m7FKk3wc072794: from=<
>username@firewall-1.xxx.com>, size=512, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<
>200808152035.m7FKZCXf072747@firewall-1.xxx.com>, proto=ESMTP,
>daemon=Daemon0, relay=localhost [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=[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=
>username@xxx.com, ctladdr=<username@firewall-1.xxx.com> (1001/1001),
>delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:0
>0:00, mailer=relay, pri=30809, relay=smtp.xxx.com. [10.0.0.2], dsn=2.0.0,
>stat=Sent ( <200808152035.m7FKZCXf072747@firewall-1.xxx.com> Queued mail for
>delivery)
>
>
>I think its important to know these details:
>firewall-1# uname -a
>FreeBSD firewall-1.xxx.com 7.0-RC1 FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 #2: Tue Feb 5 07:10:05
>MST 2008 root@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@xxx.comwhich is to be sent via smarthost.
>
>I have the smarthost "DS" parameter in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf configured to
>use DSsmtp.xxx.com
>
>/etc/hosts contains
>localhost 127.0.0.1 firewall-1 firewall-1.xxx.com
>smtp.xxx.com 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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