From: cbaker@GOODYEAR.COM
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 14:16:28 EDT
Another time your mail is DELAYED is when the load average of the sending
box is too high. If you have something else eating up CPU on your box,
sendmail will "defer" sends until the box is more freed up. Check out the
"Ox" and "OX" settings in "/etc/sendmail.cf"
# load average at which we just queue messages
Ox16
# load average at which we refuse connections
OX20
Christopher M. Baker
Senior Technical Support Analyst
DSE/TCO
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
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>For the last few days, my /var/spool/mqueue has been filling up with
>undelivered mail. When I do a mailq -v, there are no warning messages.
> Yet, the mail sits there. This problem appears to be size related.
>At first I thought I had a majordomo problem because messages to lists
>are predominant, but messages to lists with only a few subscribers zip
>right through. I then tried sending attachments. Messages with small
>ones zip right through. Large ones sit in the mqueue. Any light anyone
>could shed on this would be greatly appreciated.
When you issue the "mqueue" command, what error messages appear with
the mail that is queued? What messages appear in /var/log/syslog
when sendmail attempts to deliver the mail? In the /var/spool/mqueue
directory the qf files have an error line similar to this one from
a piece of mail queued on one of my sendmail systems:
MDeferred: Connection refused by relay.mx.skynet.be.
and that same error message appears in the output of "mailq":
HAB15580 2786 Thu May 8 07:00 owner-argonne-today
(Deferred: Connection refused by relay.mx.skynet.be.)
claudia.goddio@skynet.be
Sometimes the error message in "mailq" is truncated, so you have to look
in the qf file to see the full error message.
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