sendmail queue question

[Doug Hunley]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:45, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> Is there any logic in sendmail to delay sending mail to some hosts? I
> have a situation where mail arrives to a mail host running sendmail, and
> the mail sits there for over 45 minutes before being sent on. I think it
> is only for some destinations. The destination in question is a local
> internal machine. It is available, and  the DNS is responding promptly.
> I am at a bit of a loss where to look. sendmail -bh for the hosts says:
>
>  acme.pacific               00:04:53 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 1
>
> So why does mail to this system sit around for 45 minutes?

What do the sendmail logs say for one of the msgids in question?
Sendmail is usually pretty good in telling you what its doing and why.

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