I just get a lot of sendmail logs: timeout waiting for input from [myserverip] during client greeting
My mails often are delivered, but sometimes a second trial is needed... I increased the preforked lmtp daemons on myserver and it seemed to help, but could someone tell me a bit more about this, is it tuneable ?
I have frontend servers with the mtas, and cyrus is running on an other server, mails are transmitted via lmtp...
My sendmail config looks like this:
######################################### ### Cyrus V2 Mailer specification ### #########################################
##### $Id: cyrusv2.m4,v 1.1 2002/06/01 21:14:57 ca Exp $ #####
Mcyrusv2, P=[IPC], F=lsDFMnqXzA@/:|m, S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, E=\r\n, T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP, A=TCP [myserverip] 2003
Have you considered making sendmail "chain" deliveries to cyrus via LMTP ? * multiple messages over single LMTP connection * a small delay before delivery (<30s for most messages)
[make cyrusv2 "expensive", make it use a separate queue group, use persistent queue runners, use MinQueueAge (delay *between* delivery attempts]
It should decrease peak load of cyrus generated by sendmail deliveries.
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