Re: Delay Problem in Outgoing and Incoming Mails

[Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

* FH <fhussain0@xxxxxxxxx>:

> We are facing this delay problem in all incoming and outgoing mails
> for the past 48 hours. I thought it would go away auto-matically but
> this problem is persisting on all this time. In the maillog every
> message that postfix processes it has a value associated to the
> "delay=xx" field. This varies between different values from single
> digit as low as 1 to double digits as high as 25. 

So?

> I also tried and
> changed the value of the tag 
>  
> to
> smtpd_error_sleep_time = 0
>  
> from
> smtpd_error_sleep_time = 1s

What dor?
  
> But still it didn't help much, and my users are still complaining the
> mails getting delayed considerably, as much as in hours.

Find out what generates the delay.

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Ralf Hildebrandt                                 Ralf.Hildebrandt@xxxxxxxxxx
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