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Question : Sendmail - Mail sending is slow
From quite some time we are experiencing problem with mail sending. Sendmail taking 20 seconds to send 1 email.
After anaylsing logs, i could find one unusual log entry:
Sep 13 04:05:25 www sendmail[3227]: n8D85PLj003227: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Sep 13 04:07:32 www sendmail[3332]: n8D87WMV003332: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Sep 13 04:11:39 www sendmail[3504]: n8D8BdFg003504: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Sep 13 04:14:27 www sendmail[3646]: n8D8ER5k003646: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Sep 13 04:16:41 www sendmail[3745]: n8D8Gfgo003745: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Sep 13 04:19:09 www sendmail[3851]: n8D8J9OR003851: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Sep 13 04:21:26 www sendmail[3954]: n8D8LQIm003954: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Sep 13 04:23:26 www sendmail[16297]: n8D8NQd1016297: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Sep 13 04:25:43 www sendmail[5937]: n8D8PhPk005937: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Sep 13 04:28:28 www sendmail[12100]: n8D8SRIn012100: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Sep 13 04:30:34 www sendmail[12215]: n8D8UYSA012215: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Sep 13 04:33:25 www sendmail[12352]: n8D8XPBQ012352: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Sep 13 04:35:18 www sendmail[12443]: n8D8ZHQC012443: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Sep 13 04:37:23 www sendmail[12542]: n8D8bNsj012542: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Sep 13 04:39:30 www sendmail[12638]: n8D8dU84012638: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Also I notice that in the maillog file it shows delays as :
Sep 16 10:14:00 www sendmail[16142]: n8GED0Al016105: to=
, delay=00:00:37, xdelay=00:00:37, mailer=esmtp, pri=123817, relay=securemail.abc.org. [
], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK - Data received)
See delay=00:00:37, xdelay=00:00:37 in above log entry, what does it mean and why such delay occuring.
Answer : Sendmail - Mail sending is slow
HI
No more analyses or help need on this. Problem RESOLVED.
I just cleared the queued mails and restarted sendmail, after restart it started sending mails w/o any delay. So possibly it was a problem due to large queue.
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