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Date:      Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:43:20 -0500
From:      "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net>
To:        Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sendmail slow to answer
Message-ID:  <3895F3E8.2EB89191@ds.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001311229370.2209-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com>

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>         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.


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