From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 21:37:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA21102 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:37:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line5.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.103]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA21097 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:37:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00453; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:37:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:37:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Christoph Kukulies cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail delivery Q In-Reply-To: <199609031221.OAA09999@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > My professor came to me today saying that his collaboration members > were complaining that they (some of them) received mail from him > with an 8 hour delay. He asked me how come and I looked into > /var/maillog where I could find that he sent said mail at 12:25. > The recipients were some users@host and somealias@domain. > The users@host received their mail immediately. Only the aliased (at the > destination) recipients were suffering from that long delay. > > As I understand, sendmail resolves the host and contacts the host's > sendmail directly to deliver the mail, right? What happens in the case of > the host portion actually isn't a host but a domain? Does sendmail > send to the smart host (DS macro)? Or does it deliver to the host > specified by the MX record in the nameserver if the nameserver has a > MX entry? Not sure. I would assume that if a MX record exists it is followed. > I'm trying to locate where the enormous delay came from. Can it be seen > from the headers at the receiving site? I would imagine so, by following the timestamps and the hops the message took. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major