timeout calling local sendmail

[fluxent at gmail.com]

that's
 "timeout calling local sendmail"
not
"timeout calling local se"


fluxent at gmail.com wrote:
> (Environment: RedHat Linux recent, Python 2.3.5)
>
> We have a batch processing script that on occasion needs to send out an
> email. We have a sendmail running locally.
>
> Sometimes we get a socket timeout on sending that email. Increasing the
> timeout to 30sec reduced but did not eliminate it.
>
> It seems to happen more often when sending to some addresses in the UK,
> but it's definitely not limited to that.
>
> And, while we sometimes send a number of messages in a short period of
> time, (a) it's all single-threaded, and (b) the failure is often but
> not always the 1st message in the batch.
>
> Any ideas on what's going on? I don't know much about the
> thread/process model of sendmail to have any clue why this is
> happening.