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

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 13:08:45 +0100 Jeremy Harris wrote:
> 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.

Yeah! That's it! Thanks for pointing out my mental deficit.

Case closed,
Frank Elsner