Re: [exim] QT=... DT=... vs timestamp

On 05/10/16 12:52, Frank Elsner wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 10:45:49 +0100 James Gibbard wrote:
>> Broken? Nope. QT includes the time spent submitting the message to
>> Exim, which ENDS with the first logline, at the start of DT. Look at
>> syslog and determine the time that the cron was supposed to start and
>> I'd bet it was 4AM.
>>
>> Thus you probably have some issue on your mailserver that means
>> messages take a long time to submit at 4AM, rather than the QT time is
>> calculated incorrectly.
>
> Please note that is was a local submission (P=local). According to sa stats
> the host was 95% idle at this time.
>
> And in all cases, the minute of the current times makes the minutes of QT.

I bet you have a cron job kicking off at 4am that takes that long to
run.
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Cheers,
Jeremy