From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 11:58:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www3.pacific-pages.com (www3.pacific-pages.com [192.41.48.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44BDD37B479 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:58:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from d.tracker ([216.191.72.61]) by www3.pacific-pages.com (8.8.5) id MAA27442; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 12:57:56 -0700 (MST) Received: (from david@localhost) by d.tracker (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA62870 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:53:06 GMT (envelope-from david) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:53:06 GMT From: David Banning Message-Id: <200011011453.OAA62870@d.tracker> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: why does sendmail take so long to send? Reply-To: david@banning.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After send a message with mutt or mail, send-mail tends to take about 10 minutes or so to send it. I continue to do a; $ ps ax | grep send and get 139 ?? Ss 0:03.31 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25 (sendmail) 62599 p3 S 0:00.23 send-mail -i lowell@world.std.com (sendmail) 62655 p3 S 0:00.15 send-mail -i ggrx@cris.com (sendmail) showing recent emails going out... what is it waiting for - it wouldn't be an issue, but right now I need to shut down the system, fire up windows 95, do some work - and leave to do some tasks. I'm kept waiting here on sendmail... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message