From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.Duchovnimorganstanley.com)
Date: Mon Nov 30 2009 - 09:04:31 CST

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On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 02:42:14PM -0800, Emmett Culley wrote:

> For some months I've been noticing on multiple servers that mail from a cron job defined in the root's crontab takes 24 hours to get to it's destination. It finally bugged me enough to have me take a look for the reason. This is what I found in the maillog for each day:
>
> Nov 29 03:15:58 den1 postfix/pickup[8219]: B0771588D1B: uid=0 from=<root>
> Nov 29 03:15:58 den1 postfix/cleanup[7689]: B0771588D1B: message-id=<20091129101558.B0771588D1Bden1.thisserver.net>
> Nov 29 03:15:58 den1 postfix/qmgr[3361]: B0771588D1B: from=<rootden1.thisserver.net>, size=819, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Nov 29 03:15:59 den1 postfix/smtp[7691]: B0771588D1B: to=<webmasterexample.com>, relay=example.com[123.45.67.89]:25, delay=86457, delays=86457/0/0.36/0.18, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 3586C400032)
> Nov 29 03:15:59 den1 postfix/qmgr[3361]: B0771588D1B: removed

Any warnings in your logs matching either of the below regexps?

    egrep 'message dated [0-9]* seconds into the future' /some/log/file
    egrep 'message has been queued for [0-9]* days' /some/log/file

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        Viktor.

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