[Mailman-Users] Mailman / Sendmail horribly slow performance..suggestions please?!?

[Andrew Falgout]

The error log is at 0 bytes.  I have not overridden the Defaults.py which
shows Defaults.py:MTA_ALIASES_STYLE = 'sendmail'.  So I assume that means
that sendmail is the MTA.

Aug 25 08:08:31 2003 (27798) smtp for 2 recips, completed in 1.045 seconds
Aug 25 08:08:31 2003 (27798) smtp for 2 recips, completed in 1.149 seconds
Aug 25 08:12:47 2003 (27798) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.208 seconds
Aug 25 08:12:47 2003 (27798) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.241 seconds
Aug 25 08:14:25 2003 (31184) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.701 seconds
Aug 25 08:14:25 2003 (31184) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.716 seconds
Aug 25 08:17:21 2003 (31184) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.167 seconds
Aug 25 08:17:21 2003 (31184) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.179 seconds
Aug 25 08:19:34 2003 (31184) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 3.962 seconds
Aug 25 08:19:34 2003 (31184) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 4.234 seconds

This is just a few of the lines in my /var/log/mailman/smtp file.  There are
a few bounces from time to time, but not on great frequency.  I did send an
email to a test list, and attempted to time when I would see my email
address in the post log, but after 10 minutes I have not seen it.  This
really confuses me, because the mail system on this server delivers mail
directly to a mailbox in seconds.  Why the delay?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Barrett" <r.barrett at ftel.co.uk>
To: "Andrew Falgout" <Andrew.Falgout at usm.edu>
Cc: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman / Sendmail horribly slow
performance..suggestions please?!?


>
> On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 12:51  am, Andrew Falgout wrote:
>
> > I'm currently running mailman-2.0.13-1 eith sendmail-8.11.6-25.72.
> > Posts
> > are processed very fast, but delivery is more than slow.  It takes 1-2
> > minutes per post to delivery mail.  Evaluating what is going on in the
> > queue is a little more than cumbersome.  Over the course of 3-4 days
> > mails
> > have been piling up in the qfiles directory to the tune of 4000 mails
> > and
> > waiting.  There are mails 3 days old waiting to go out.  I'm looking
> > for
> > ways to evaluate what is in the queue, why it's in the queue, and how
> > to
> > tell qrunner to report more information on what it's thinking.  Like
> > perhaps the msgid of the email it's trying to process at this time.
> >
> Are you using the local sendmail instance as the outgoing SMTP server?
>
> Regardless, what do the Mailman post, smtp and smtp-failure logs show
> about mail being handled by the system. How does this tie in with the
> MTA's mail log.
>
> If your outgoing mail is being handled by the local sendmail MTA then I
> would normally expect Mailman to handoff to the MTA without much delay.
> If MM is having problems handing off to sendmail then you might find
> some evidence of this in the smtp-failure log.
> > -- 
> > Thank You,
> > Andrew
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