Re: [Astlinux-devel] msmtp - what controls the queue delay?

[Bill L. <wr...@gm...>]

On 5/26/2019 8:35 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
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>> On May 26, 2019, at 3:15 PM, Bill Lewis <wr...@gm...> wrote:
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>> Hello all,
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>> What controls how long an email sits in the msmtpqueue before being sent out?
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>> It seems to take quite a while (minutes) before sending.
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>> Bill
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> Outbound emails should be forwarded almost immediately, unless there is some sort of error.
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> If there is an error, the email(s) is queued and retried every 5 minutes.
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> Lonnie

It turns out there were dozen of old emails in that queue.  Going back 
many months.  When I finally configured the mail server, my outgoing 
msgs seemed to be taking a long time, vs sending instantly from another 
system configured the same way.

I then noticed the 'mail' script sends immediately for non-root users
vs. scheduling.  So I sent looking for a time delay.  And I changed that
5 minutes to 30 seconds to see what would happen.

Because of all this, the system sent out a ton of failed sends to Gmail, 
and they locked my account.  Only then did I discover all the msgs in 
the spool dir.  Killing all that and waiting about an hour, Gmail 
started working again.  And sending promptly.

Bill