Re: Delay Problem in Outgoing and Incoming Mails

[Victor Duchovni <Victor.Duchovni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 05:14:21AM -0700, FH wrote:

> 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. I also tried and changed the value of the tag

These delays are measured in *seconds* not hours.

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

If mail is delayed for *hours* and the largest delays in your logs are
less than a minute, one can clearly conclude that the mail is delayed
in someone else's queue.

Don't waste everyone's (and especially your own) time chasing imaginary
problems. Pull the Received headers from a specific delayed message. Find
the largest time gap between adjacent Received headers (don't forget to
take the timezone offsets into account). The mail got delayed at the
site that logged the header nearer the body.

-- 
	Viktor.

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