Forwarding aliases take an hour to arrive

Help with Setup/Upgrade
1

Hello,

I’m running v0.52 on a DO VPS.

I have a catch-all rule for all emails to go to my primary email address on the MiaB account.

However, any time I send to one of those aliases, it can take about 1 hour before the email hits my inbox, even though the time frame shows the original send time. This is the same on whether I send the email from another inbox I own, or I provide that email to another third-party service.

Emails to my primary account are received nearly instantaneously.

For a more illustrative example: mail@domain.com is the primary address, worked wonderfully for everything I do. I have a catch-all on everything else for that domain. So if I provide a vendor vendor1@domain.com, it might take 1 hour for that email hits my mail@domain.com inbox.

What can I do to shorten that time? What information or logs can I provide?

2

is it only the first mail or subsequent mail too? Sounds like greylisting issue (though 1 hour is a bit long).

Can u try checking out your mail.log, do a sudo tail -f /var/log/mail.log and see live activity, then see what turn up the moment you send the mail from your vendor.

3

Results of the tail. PII redacted.

test@xxx.me is the alias to be forwarded from the catch-all.
mail@xxx.me is the primary email.
xxx@gmail.com is the original sender.

Mar 16 18:51:48 box postfix/smtpd[3178]: connect from mail-pg1-f179.google.com[209.85.215.179]
Mar 16 18:51:48 box postfix/smtpd[3178]: warning: restriction `reject_authenticated_sender_login_mismatch' ignored: no SASL support
Mar 16 18:51:48 box postgrey[1199]: action=pass, reason=client whitelist, client_name=mail-pg1-f179.google.com, client_address=209.85.215.179/32, sender=xxx@gmail.com, recipient=test@xxx.me
Mar 16 18:51:48 box postfix/smtpd[3178]: EDB14FC08D: client=mail-pg1-f179.google.com[209.85.215.179]
Mar 16 18:51:49 box postfix/cleanup[2455]: EDB14FC08D: message-id=<CAARSepwCANHOQNZHEcCE911P14_PQS6Di1SBndG-RL00gvyGsA@mail.gmail.com>
Mar 16 18:51:49 box opendkim[13395]: EDB14FC08D: s=20161025 d=gmail.com SSL
Mar 16 18:51:49 box opendmarc[936]: implicit authentication service: box.xxx.me
Mar 16 18:51:49 box opendmarc[936]: EDB14FC08D: SPF(mailfrom): xxx@gmail.com pass
Mar 16 18:51:49 box opendmarc[936]: EDB14FC08D: gmail.com pass
Mar 16 18:51:49 box postfix/qmgr[1487]: EDB14FC08D: from=<xxx@gmail.com>, size=3225, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Mar 16 18:51:49 lmtp(26434): Info: Connect from 127.0.0.1
Mar 16 18:51:49 box postfix/smtpd[3178]: disconnect from mail-pg1-f179.google.com[209.85.215.179] ehlo=2 starttls=1 mail=1 rcpt=1 data=1 quit=1 commands=7
Mar 16 18:51:49 box spampd[1282]: processing message <CAARSepwCANHOQNZHEcCE911P14_PQS6Di1SBndG-RL00gvyGsA@mail.gmail.com> for <mail@xxx.me>
Mar 16 18:51:51 box spampd[1282]: clean message <CAARSepwCANHOQNZHEcCE911P14_PQS6Di1SBndG-RL00gvyGsA@mail.gmail.com> (-0.29/5.00) from <xxx@gmail.com> for <mail@xxx.me> in 2.12s, 3541 bytes.
Mar 16 18:51:51 lmtp(mail@xxx.me): Info: MOYrDpVEUWBCZwAAmi+HPQ: sieve: msgid=<CAARSepwCANHOQNZHEcCE911P14_PQS6Di1SBndG-RL00gvyGsA@mail.gmail.com>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX'
Mar 16 18:51:51 box postfix/lmtp[2454]: EDB14FC08D: to=<mail@xxx.me>, orig_to=<test@xxx.me>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10025, delay=2.6, delays=0.42/0/0/2.2, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 <mail@xxx.me> MOYrDpVEUWBCZwAAmi+HPQ Saved)
Mar 16 18:51:51 lmtp(26434): Info: Disconnect from 127.0.0.1: Successful quit
Mar 16 18:51:51 box postfix/qmgr[1487]: EDB14FC08D: removed
4

It’s moved into your inbox.

5

Some of these just aren’t hitting my inbox.

6

Can you provide an example of one that isn’t hitting your inbox? If the logs report inbox delivery, it sounds more like a client issue.

Note that root privileges are not required to read /var/log/mail.log.

7

@openletter I’ll do another test this weekend to see what I can get.

In the meantime, I added my own domain to a /etc/postgrey/whitelist_clients.local file and restarted postgrey and postfix and I’m seeing some better results so far.

1 Like
8

This topic was automatically closed 7 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.