Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:15:25 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Pagaime?= <jpsp@fccn.pt> To: "Fabrizio Ravazzini" <freefabri@yahoo.it>, <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SMTP very very slow! Message-ID: <07b901c120d5$5a19d5d0$dc0788c1@jpsp2> References: <20010809120615.73455.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com>
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I would try to check if inetd is trying to use the "ident" service or if there's a reverse DNS lookup somewhere --jp ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fabrizio Ravazzini" <freefabri@yahoo.it> To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 1:06 PM Subject: SMTP very very slow! > Hello all, just for a test I've installed FreeBSD 4.3 > on an old 486 in order to study the way to build a > mail server. > I've installed Q-mail, tested the smtp telnetting in > the port 25 and also sending mails with my other > machine running Linux in the same Lan and I observed > that the mail server was very fast, all worked well. > So I decided to install vpopmail, > courier-imap,sqwebmail and qmailadmin on Apache. > After the installation all the services worked well. > The problem is that sending mail for example with > netscape or pine on the Linux box the smtp of my > server was very slow. > I tried to telnet on the port 25 of the FreeBSD box > but the daemon hanged me there for several minutes and > then answered and all worked ok. > This also for the pop3, when I try to poll the FreeBSD > machine I have to wait several minutes to get an > answer, but after that all works well. > The other services,like sqwebmail,Imap, telnet ftp > they works very fast and the response is immediate. > So why the pop3 & smtp are so slow? > I checked the coaxial cable and the sk ethernet but > they are ok. > This is my small Lan: > > Linux Box FreeBSD Mailserver OpenBSD > (Client) Qmail,vpopmail... Gateway/NAT > []------------[]-----------------------[]-->Internet > 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3 192.168.0.1 > > > Can someone help me? > > Many thanks in advance > Fabrizio > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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