From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 31 12:43:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5374914D5E for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:43:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmutter@ds.net) Received: from ds.net (i1p69.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.69]) by s1.ds.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA15646; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:43:09 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3895F3E8.2EB89191@ds.net> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:43:20 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail slow to answer References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've had a weird problem with sendmail ever since I upgraded my > home server system from 2.2.8 to 3.x. I have a mailserver running on that > machine for personal mail, and as the outgoing smtp server for my home > network. Everything works as it should, except that connecting to the > server is very slow. It does answer eventually, and once it answers it's > snappy enough, but it's very slow (around 5 seconds) to answer. > > At first I thought that was related to not having updated my > sendmail.cf, but I finally got around to doing that last night and it did > not improve things. Any suggestions here would be welcome, OTHER than a > suggestion to use a different mailer. I do have that on my list to try > something else (probably postfix) soon, but it's not practical to change > it right now. I'm not a Sendmail guru - but is identd running? I think that may be the cause of your problem here. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message