07-15-2016
Thank you for your thoughts RudiC,
I can confirm that it is always the same sender because we force the sender name.
We have considered DNS, but the frequency seems too high to be mistakes so the mail won't deliver (besides we just need to get it into the queue) and if it was a general problem I wouldn't think we should get any processed really quickly. The nearest I have on DNS is that the mail is from application generating the mail is an active-active cluster and what appears in the log is the boot IP address sending mail in, not a DNS name. Perhaps it is trying to reverse lookup, but the time is not consistent so leads me away from that being the issue. DNS query timeout has not yet been adjusted as people are not keen to fiddle with it, but it's still an option if we can be fairly certain.
Kind regards,
Robin
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testmxlookup
TESTMXLOOKUP(1) Double Precision, Inc. TESTMXLOOKUP(1)
NAME
testmxlookup - Look up mail relays for a domain
SYNOPSIS
testmxlookup [@ip-address] [--dnssec] [--udpsize n] {domain}
DESCRIPTION
testmxlookup lists the names and IP addresses of mail relays that receive mail for the domain. This is useful in diagnosing mail delivery
problems.
testmxlookup sends a DNS MX query for the specified domain, followed by A/AAAA queries, if needed. testmxlookup lists the hostname and the
IP address of every mail relay, and its MX priority.
DIAGNOSTICS
The error message "Hard error" indicates that the domain does not exist, or does not have any mail relays. The error message "Soft error"
indicates a temporary error condition (usually a network failure of some sorts, or the local DNS server is down).
OPTIONS
@ip-address
Specify the DNS server's IP address, where to send the DNS query to, overriding the default DNS server addresses read from
/etc/resolv.conf.
"ip-address" must be a literal, numeric, IP address.
--dnssec
Enable the DNSSEC extension. If the DNS server has DNSSEC enabled, and the specified domain's DNS records are signed, the list of IP
addresses is suffixed by "(DNSSEC)", indicating a signed response.
This is a diagnostic option. Older DNS servers may respond with an error, to a DNSSEC query.
--udpsize n
Specify that n is the largest UDP packet size that the DNS server may send. This option is only valid together with "--dnssec". If
"--dnssec" always returns an error, try "--udpsize 512" (the default setting is 1280 bytes, which is adequate for Ethernet, but other
kinds of networks may impose lower limits).
SEE ALSO
courier(8)[1], RFC 1035[2].
AUTHOR
Sam Varshavchik
Author
NOTES
1. courier(8)
[set $man.base.url.for.relative.links]/courier.html
2. RFC 1035
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt
Courier Mail Server 11/18/2011 TESTMXLOOKUP(1)