messages are stuck for a long time in mail queue

[dxer]

Clients of mine are reporting that sent mails are sometimes not delivered immediately but sometimes in about 30-60 minutes from the time they are sent.

When a client reports this I check WHM/MailQueue and I see message is there but i don't know what is waiting there. How can i fix this so messages will be sent immediatelly ?

Thanks

[mickalo]

Originally Posted by dxer

Clients of mine are reporting that sent mails are sometimes not delivered immediately but sometimes in about 30-60 minutes from the time they are sent.

When a client reports this I check WHM/MailQueue and I see message is there but i don't know what is waiting there. How can i fix this so messages will be sent immediatelly ?

Thanks

if you recently updated exim, look in the exim.conf, toward the top, you see this setting:
queue_only = true
comment it out, restart exim.

we had the same problems, plus if your running MailScanner, this slows things down too.

Mickalo

[chirpy]

It is important to know if you are or used to run MailScanner, as mickalo pointed out. One issues that can cause problems, if you are running MailScanner, is if you use a lot of catchall aliases and are also prone to email dictionary attacks.

[dxer]

I used to run Mailscanner but Mailscanner is disabled for sometime now.

But why you wrote that this can be cause of "used to run mailscanner" ? What could I do to fix this. is mailscanner caused some kind of change somewhere in exim and what change ?

[dxer]

There is no "queue_only" in my exim.conf so there must be some other thing to try....