qMail Taking 30-60 secs to send message

[flexage]

Hi folks!

The title say's it all, qMail is taking at least 30-60 seconds to fire off an email, that is if the client software doesn't time out first!

I've tried Outlook, emClient, RoundCube Webmail and an Android Mail Client.... same results on each.

Looking at the maillog there seems to be hundreds of new entries every second.

Here is a snippit:

Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.151176 starting delivery 211: msg 210515326 to local 1-postmaster@thegamesd$
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.151208 status: local 2/10 remote 8/20
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.151717 starting delivery 212: msg 210515274 to local 1-root@thegamesdb.net
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.151739 status: local 3/10 remote 8/20
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12139]: Handlers Filter before-local for qmail started ...
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12140]: Handlers Filter before-local for qmail started ...
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12140]: from=
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12140]: to=root@thegamesdb.net
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12140]: mailbox: /var/qmail/mailnames/thegamesdb.net
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12139]: from=#@[]
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12139]: to=postmaster@thegamesdb.net
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12139]: mailbox: /var/qmail/mailnames/thegamesdb.net
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12140]: Unable to get sender domain by sender mailname
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.183685 starting delivery 213: msg 210513508 to local 1-postmaster@thegamesd$
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.183726 status: local 4/10 remote 8/20
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.183736 delivery 210: deferral: ./Maildir:_No_such_file_or_directory/
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.183745 status: local 3/10 remote 8/20
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.183755 delivery 212: failure: ./Maildir:_No_such_file_or_directory/I'm_not_$
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.183764 status: local 2/10 remote 8/20
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-queue-handlers[12148]: Handlers Filter before-queue for qmail started ...
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12149]: Handlers Filter before-local for qmail started ...
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-queue-handlers[12148]: from=#@[]
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-queue-handlers[12148]: to=postmaster@tgdb.(none)
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12149]: from=#@[]
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12149]: to=postmaster@thegamesdb.net
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12149]: mailbox: /var/qmail/mailnames/thegamesdb.net
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-queue-handlers[12148]: starter: submitter[12150] exited normally
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.226147 bounce msg 210515274 qp 12148
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.227155 end msg 210515274
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.227421 delivery 211: failure: ./Maildir:_No_such_file_or_directory/I'm_not_$
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.229095 status: local 1/10 remote 8/20
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.246970 starting delivery 214: msg 210516149 to local 1-postmaster@thegamesd$
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.247013 status: local 2/10 remote 8/20
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.247025 triple bounce: discarding bounce/210515326
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.247183 end msg 210515326
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.247552 delivery 213: deferral: ./Maildir:_No_such_file_or_directory/
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.247573 status: local 1/10 remote 8/20
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12158]: Handlers Filter before-local for qmail started ...
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12158]: from=#@[]
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12158]: to=postmaster@thegamesdb.net
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail-local-handlers[12158]: mailbox: /var/qmail/mailnames/thegamesdb.net
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.281957 starting delivery 215: msg 210514740 to local 1-postmaster@thegamesd$
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.282001 status: local 2/10 remote 8/20
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.282013 delivery 214: deferral: ./Maildir:_No_such_file_or_directory/
Dec 14 14:51:21 tgdb qmail: 1355485881.282022 status: local 1/10 remote 8/20

Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[IgorG]

Have you tried to rebuild mailsetting with mchk at least?

 

[flexage]

For posterity, I eventually fixed this issue. Reverse DNS was configured incorrectly for my IP, and this was causing a "wait" period when attempting to establish a new SMTP connection.

Once rDNS was configured correctly the SMTP connections became nice a quick.