From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 22: 7:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pc759.cs.msu.su (pc759.cs.msu.su [158.250.10.223]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3162137B4D7 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:07:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc759.cs.msu.su (uucp@localhost) by pc759.cs.msu.su (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id WAA65695; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:34:32 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ark@pc759.cs.msu.su) Received: from pc759.cs.msu.su (megagame.my.home [10.0.1.5]) by gateway.my.home (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA03232; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 20:19:45 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ark@pc759.cs.msu.su) Message-ID: <3A01CDA5.7E614F1C@pc759.cs.msu.su> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 20:25:09 +0000 From: ark X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: banning.com!david@pc759.cs.msu.su Cc: FreeBSD.ORG!questions@pc759.cs.msu.su Subject: Re: why does sendmail take so long to send? References: <200011011453.OAA62870@d.tracker> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Banning wrote: > > 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) It means that connection to that address is not good. Or somethere near you recipient Net went down. You can safely reboot - it will deliver next time you boot FreeBSD. > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message