Mail log parameters and Postfix

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Recently I wanted to explain to someone some issues with hsi email where the 
mail delivery was very slow to his server. The only documentation I could 
find for the delay=nn parameter was from the Sendmail book where it said 
something like delay=time where time was hh:mm:ss, which I don't believe. 
In his case, I was seing delays in the high teens (17, 18, 19). In this 
specific case we use Postfix, but even where we used Sendmail, I don't 
think it is time based. I had always thought that delay=nn denotes the 
number of times the message has been attempted to send from the queue. (eg. 
delay=0, message was sent immediately and not queued, delay=1, message was 
placed on the queue, and sent the first time Postfix examined the queue. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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