Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 10:15:14 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: "Michael D. Allen" <mallen@erhs.la> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very sluggish sendmail Message-ID: <20020217101514.A1169@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020216020603.P1045-100000@the-rock.lausd.k12.ca.us>; from mallen@erhs.la on Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 02:18:33AM -0800 References: <20020216020603.P1045-100000@the-rock.lausd.k12.ca.us>
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On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 02:18:33AM -0800, Michael D. Allen wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering if someone had any ideas in helping to solve a
> sendmail problem I'm having.
>
> I'm running stock sendmail from FreeBSD 4.4, and sendmail is extremely
> sluggish. Running mailq takes a good 30 seconds on an idle Pentium III
> with an empty mail queue:
[...]
That's indicative of a timeout on a DNS lookup. Make sure all boxes
connecting to the mailserver have reverse-ptr entry in the DNS.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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