Victor Duchovni:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 02:42:14PM -0800, Emmett Culley wrote:
>
> > For some months I've been noticing on multiple servers that mail from a
> > cron job defined in the root's crontab takes 24 hours to get to it's
> > destination. It finally bugged me enough to have me take a look for the
> > reason. This is what I found in the maillog for each day:
> >
> > Nov 29 03:15:58 den1 postfix/pickup[8219]: B0771588D1B: uid=0 from=<root>
> > Nov 29 03:15:58 den1 postfix/cleanup[7689]: B0771588D1B:
> > message-id=<20091129101558.b0771588...@den1.thisserver.net>
> > Nov 29 03:15:58 den1 postfix/qmgr[3361]: B0771588D1B:
> > from=<r...@den1.thisserver.net>, size=819, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> > Nov 29 03:15:59 den1 postfix/smtp[7691]: B0771588D1B:
> > to=<webmas...@example.com>, relay=example.com[123.45.67.89]:25,
> > delay=86457, delays=86457/0/0.36/0.18, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0
> > Ok: queued as 3586C400032)
> > Nov 29 03:15:59 den1 postfix/qmgr[3361]: B0771588D1B: removed
>
> Any warnings in your logs matching either of the below regexps?
>
> egrep 'message dated [0-9]* seconds into the future' /some/log/file
> egrep 'message has been queued for [0-9]* days' /some/log/file
Some unhelpful systems log warning messages separate from normal
activity, so he may have to look in different files.
Wietse
