Re: mailq full but nothing in active/deferred/incoming

[Stéphane MERLE]

Title: stephane

I am a little surprised by the fact that I would be using sendmail, I though that php.cli would sent directly the mail in the maildrop folder. in my php.ini file (within the cli version of php5) I can see : [mail function] SMTP = localhost smtp_port = 25 and if I run : #dpkg --get-selections | grep -i "sendmail" # I got no package installed for sendmail ... Stéphane Le 06/06/2011 19:23, Stéphane MERLE a écrit : Le 06/06/2011 19:14, Wietse Venema a écrit : St�phane MERLE: Hi, Le 06/06/2011 18:43, Wietse Venema a ?crit : St?phane MERLE: Hi, I can see in my logs that postfix is "waiting" for 10s between each email. What are the name and arguments of the program that is waiting? this is a php script using the mail command ... $retour=mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, $option5); This uses /usr/sbin/sendmail. It places your messages into the /var/spool/postfix/maildrop directory, where they wait to be picked up by Postfix (but only when Postfix is running). I though that I was dealing directly with postfix from php cli .... (I am using ubuntu 10.04LTS). so the one doing a 10s pause is sendmail ? I tried to check the size of the spool and here is what I get (start to go down) : # mailq | wc -l 57962 # durep -td=1 [ /home/spool/postfix   328.6M (2 files, 17 dirs) ]  215.5M [###################           ]  65.57% defer/  112.9M [##########                    ]  34.35% deferred/  220.5K [                              ]   0.07% lib/   29.8K [                              ]   0.01% incoming/   21.7K [                              ]   0.01% etc/    8.0K [                              ]   0.00% smtp_scache.db    8.0K [                              ]   0.00% smtpd_scache.db    2.1K [                              ]   0.00% bounce/     17b [                              ]   0.00% pid/     14b [                              ]   0.00% usr/      0b [                              ]   0.00% trace/      0b [                              ]   0.00% saved/      0b [                              ]   0.00% public/      0b [                              ]   0.00% maildrop/      0b [                              ]   0.00% private/      0b [                              ]   0.00% hold/      0b [                              ]   0.00% flush/      0b [                              ]   0.00% corrupt/      0b [                              ]   0.00% active/ # and I got a few mails in the deferred queue (most orange and yahoo, probably the one doing the reverse dns check) :                                             T  5 10 20 40 80 160 320  640 1280 1280+                               TOTAL 14488  0  0 80  8 50 212 448 1077 1128 11485                           orange.fr  6888  0  0  0  0  1   9 145  431  530  5772                            yahoo.fr  3717  0  0 72  7 22  82 104  259  339  2832                          wanadoo.fr  3564  0  0  0  0 25 118 194  377  214  2636                           yahoo.com   156  0  0  5  0  0   2   2    7   23   117 it seems to get better and better so I am assuming that the dns propagation is finally done. Thanks for your help, usually this server is working like a charm ... Stéphane Like, looking at the mail logfile, with all the warnings where Postfix is trying to tell you that there is a problem. http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#logging Wietse --