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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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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

sendmailconfig

SENDMAILCONFIG(8)					      System Manager's Manual						 SENDMAILCONFIG(8)

NAME

       sendmailconfig - configure sendmail for Debian systems

SYNOPSIS

       sendmailconfig [--no-reload]

DESCRIPTION

       sendmailconfig is used to simplify the configuration of sendmail(8) for use on Debian systems.

       In  the	simplest  case,  you  may  run	this program to (re)configure sendmail for your Debian system at any time. It will modify the file
       /etc/mail/sendmail.mc in order to create a working sendmail configuration which will be written to the file /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.

       For advanced configurations, you can modify the sendmail.mc file before generating sendmail.cf. Future invokations of  sendmailconfig  will
       preserve these changes provided they are made at the end of the file.

       Normally  sendmailconfig  will  ask  if	you want to reload sendmail after making changes to its configuration. The --no-reload option will
       avoid this question.

FILES

       /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
	      sendmail m4 input to generate sendmail.cf

       /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
	      actual sendmail configuration file

       /etc/mail/sendmail.cw
	      names for which we will accept mail in the standard configuration

       /etc/mail/sendmail.ct
	      names of trusted users in the standard configuration

SEE ALSO

       sendmail(8)

AUTHOR

       Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>

								    21-Jan-1997 						 SENDMAILCONFIG(8)
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