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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications Sendmail delay: 3 mins 11 secs... Every time. Post 303002778 by jim mcnamara on Friday 1st of September 2017 07:46:16 AM
Old 09-01-2017
Assuming sendmail daemon is active:

the sendmail daemon can be set up with queueing - meaning send out mail every x minutes.

There are .cf files in the mail directory tree in /etc. (you did this) Read though them and see what is set. (queueing control can be set here, too): Also review the command used to start smtp (sendmail), there are usually two sendmail processes.

I would help but I do not have a unix box here, and sendmail is beastly in how it does things. I do not remember.

You may also need to check if the box that has the problem has an active mail server or if the smtp request is forwarded to another box.
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praliases(1)							   User Commands						      praliases(1)

NAME
praliases - display system mail aliases SYNOPSIS
praliases [-C configfile] [-f aliasfile] [key] DESCRIPTION
The praliases utility displays system mail aliases. When no key is given, praliases displays the current system aliases, one per line, in no particular order. The form is key:value. If a key is given, only that key is looked up and the appropriate key:value is displayed if found. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -C configfile Specifies a sendmail configuration file. -f aliasfile Reads the specified file aliasfile instead of the default sendmail system aliases file. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: key A specific alias key to look up. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful operation. >0 An error occurred. FILES
/etc/mail/aliases Default sendmail system aliases file /etc/mail/aliases.db Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file /etc/mail/aliases.dir Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file /etc/mail/aliases.pag /etc/mail/sendmail.cf Default sendmail configuration file ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWsndmu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
mailq(1), newaliases(1M), sendmail(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 29 Mar 2004 praliases(1)
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