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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Delay in sending email to-from localhost in Sendmail Post 302660705 by Rohit Bhanot on Saturday 23rd of June 2012 12:15:40 AM
Old 06-23-2012
Delay in sending email to-from localhost in Sendmail

Hi Friends,

I am very much new to sendmail or any other mta. I just installed sendmail 8.14 on my rhel6 machine. I was trying to send email to local user but after entering the message when i press CTRL-D it simply hangs. I also tried sending email via mutt but again mutt also hangs. It sends the email but after taking a quite a long time like 2-3 minutes.

Here are the logs confirming that delay

Code:
Jun 22 21:03:07 test sendmail[2119]: q5N133lp002119: from=rohit, size=9, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201206230103.q5N133lp002119@test.home.com>, relay=root@localhost
Jun 22 21:05:55 test sm-mta[2120]: q5N137CR002120: from=<rohit@test.home.com>, size=263, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201206230103.q5N133lp002119@test.home.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Jun 22 21:05:55 test sendmail[2119]: q5N133lp002119: to=stu, ctladdr=rohit (502/505), delay=00:02:52, xdelay=00:02:48, mailer=relay, pri=30009, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (q5N137CR002120 Message accepted for delivery)
Jun 22 21:05:55 test sm-mta[2220]: q5N137CR002120: to=<stu@test.home.com>, ctladdr=<rohit@test.home.com> (502/505), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30449, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

So could any one suggest what could be the issue. IPTables is not running on the system.

Thanks in advance
 

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Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail(3pm)

NAME
Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail - Log messages with sendmail. SYNOPSIS
use Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail; my $email = Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail->new( from => 'bar@foo.example', to => 'foo@bar.example', subject => 'your subject', ); $email->log(message => $message); DESCRIPTION
With this output module it's possible to log messages via "sendmail". METHODS
new() Call "new()" to create a new Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail object. The following options are possible: from The sender address (From). to The receipient address (To). cc Carbon Copy (Cc). bcc Blind Carbon Copy (Bcc) subject The subject of the mail. sender This option is identical with "sendmail -f". header With this options it's possible to set your own header. my $email = Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail->new( from => 'bar@foo.example', to => 'foo@bar.example', header => 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset= UTF-8', ); Or my $email = Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail->new( header => { From => 'bar@foo.example', To => 'foo@bar.example', Subject => 'my subject', 'Content-Type' => text/plain; charset= UTF-8', } ); Or my $email = Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail->new( header => [ 'From: bar@foo.example', 'To: foo@bar.example', 'Subject: my subject', 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset= UTF-8', ] ); sendmail The default is set to "/usr/sbin/sendmail". params Parameters for "sendmail". The default is set to "-t". maxsize Set the maximum size of the buffer in bytes. All messages will be buffered and if "maxsize" is exceeded the buffer is flushed and the messages will be send as email. The default is set to 1048576 bytes. Set 0 if you want no buffering and send a mail for each log message. debug Set 1 if you want to enable debugging. The messages can be fetched with $SIG{__WARN__}. log() Call "log()" if you want to log a message as email. $email->log(message => "this message will be mailed"); If you pass the level then its placed into the subject: $email->log(message => "foo", level => "INFO"); $email->log(message => "bar", level => "ERROR"); $email->log(message => "baz", level => "DEBUG"); The lowest level is used: Subject: ERROR ... You can pass the level with "Log::Handler" by setting message_pattern => '%L' flush() Call "flush()" if you want to flush the buffered messages. validate() Validate a configuration. reload() Reload with a new configuration. errstr() This function returns the last error message. DESTROY
"DESTROY" is defined and called "flush()". PREREQUISITES
Carp Params::Validate EXPORTS
No exports. REPORT BUGS
Please report all bugs to <jschulz.cpan(at)bloonix.de>. If you send me a mail then add Log::Handler into the subject. AUTHOR
Jonny Schulz <jschulz.cpan(at)bloonix.de>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007-2009 by Jonny Schulz. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-11-21 Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail(3pm)
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