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IDA Gurus:

I have been running IDA sendmail for quite a while now.  I encountered a
nuisance that we have kludged around, but I would like to know if this is a
problem of the software or my configuration, or if it's a feature :-)

When sending email to a program, it takes a long time for the message to be
sent.  First it gets queued, then sometime down the road, it gets sent.
It's almost like there needs to be X number of queued messages before they
will be sent to the program.

Here is a syslog entry of an example:

Nov  2 10:39:57 kocrsv01 sendmail[12581]: AA12579: to="|/vol/local/lib/logfilter", delay=00:00:00, stat=queued
Nov  3 08:03:11 kocrsv01 sendmail[28494]: AA12579: to="|/vol/local/lib/logfilter", delay=21:23:14, stat=Sent, mailer=prog

Here are some other delay examples:

Nov  3 08:03:16 kocrsv01 sendmail[28494]: AA17013: to="|/vol/local/lib/logfilter", delay=19:54:35, stat=Sent, mailer=prog
Nov  4 14:03:09 kocrsv01 sendmail[4229]: AA01690: to="|/vol/local/lib/logfilter", delay=1+04:30:12, stat=Sent, mailer=prog
Nov  4 14:03:29 kocrsv01 sendmail[4229]: AA04498: to="|/vol/local/bin.sun4/filter -vo /users/rdrusch/.elm/filter-errors", delay=17:03:25, stat=Sent, mailer=prog

To get around this, we setup some aliases to send any email going to
programs to another machine not running IDA sendmail so they can get
processed immediately.  Here is an example:

derpt-process:derpt-sv02@kocrsv02
derpt-sv02:"|/vol/local/lib/derpt_store/vendor-mail/derptmail"

This kinda defeats the purpose of having a "mail server" and confuses the
general user playing with his .forward file.  Can anyone offer any solutions
or hints?

Hardware:  Sun 4/490 w/SunOS 4.1.2
Software:  IDA Sendmail 1.4.4.1

Steve
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