Mails do not get send in time

[Christian Ratzlaff]

Hi there,
i'm new to all this and have to use plesk because of my provider installed it as default
I have a problem with my mailserver...
Mail do not get send in time even though the server is idle (max 1%-2% util). Somewhen it get's send but that's really... annoying I found some mails in the queue that have been there for days.
there's currently a passwort reminder mail which has been there for about 30 minutes and i don't have any idea how to get the mailserver to send the mails faster

kind regards

Christian

 

[IgorG]

It is very difficult to say why you have such delays. Plesk maillog /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog should be investigated. Also try to rebuild mailsettings with

# /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mchk --with-spam

 

[Christian Ratzlaff]

What exactly happens with that line? As which user shall I run it?

 

[IgorG]

Run it as root. Contact support team if you are not familiar with unix command line interface.

 

[Christian Ratzlaff]

I am
The question is, what will get reset by using this... will only the mailconfig be writte new? Or will all mailaccounts get reset?

 

[IgorG]

# /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mchk --help
Restore settings for all mailboxes.
Usage: /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mchk [OPTION]

OPTIONS:
--without-spam restore all settings except for SpamAssassin configuration
--with-spam restore all settings
--spam-only restore only SpamAssassin settings

 

[Christian Ratzlaff]

Oh...that's for the mailboxes?
I'm not sure that's what I need.. The mailboxes work fine... I can recieve mails ... The Problem is the sending.. part.. and it does not matter if it's via a mailbox or just directly via php or whatever...

 

[Christian Ratzlaff]

I had the chanec to take a look into the logfile:

2010-04-22T18:23:48.284647+02:00 h1597472 qmail: 1271953428.284574 delivery 43: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/

i guess, that's a problem But i'm not sure, how to solve it.. I will now try to run the statement above.

 

[KhawaibA]

Mail in the queue for many days

Hi,

I am having similar problem on my Plesk 9.5.1 with Webfusion.

Mail stays in queue for many days. I have account activation sitting in there for last 6 days.

I tried
# /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mchk --with-spam

==> Checking for: mail_spam_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mailsrv_conf_init... fail

Thanks

 

[IgorG]

I had the chanec to take a look into the logfile:

2010-04-22T18:23:48.284647+02:00 h1597472 qmail: 1271953428.284574 delivery 43: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/

i guess, that's a problem But i'm not sure, how to solve it.. I will now try to run the statement above.

http://kb.odin.com/en/1398

 

[Christian Ratzlaff]

So I took a look into the KB article.
Mail sending is enabled for all IP adresses in PLESK
Firewall allows all outgoing traffic.

The last hint is about some DNS thing? I did a nslookup to the main domain where the mail is sent from. and it's unlikely that port 25 is blocked. That'd have caused troubles with other customers of this VERY big provider (which btw. says this is a plesk problem and you have to help me )

 

[Christian Ratzlaff]

Oh i found more:

010-04-24T23:30:11.685226+02:00 h1597472 qmail: 1272144611.685172 delivery 20: failure: Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_named_h1597472.h1597472._(#5.1.2)/

that's correct. The hostname is actually: h1597472.stratoserver.net (no idea where the one it wants to reach comes from)

oh and more:

2010-04-24T23:30:11.805126+02:00 h1597472 qmail-local-handlers[17419]: Handlers Filter before-local for qmail started ...
2010-04-24T23:30:11.805262+02:00 h1597472 qmail-local-handlers[17419]: cannot create temporary file - (13) Permission denied
2010-04-24T23:30:11.805304+02:00 h1597472 qmail-local-handlers[17419]: cannot read message from stdin

i'm not sure if that's a followup of the host thing?

 

[Christian Ratzlaff]

This is still an issue :/

Two mails got send from the queue today.. but on is still there:
mail-queue-remote.gif [] PASSWORD RESET April 22, 2010 08:46 AM 6 Tag(e) 01:51:30 728 Bytes

so it's there for > 6 days :/