From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 9 17:39:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.datafast.net.au (mailhub.datafast.net.au [203.123.67.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3A4E37B401 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:39:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from corey.ralph@datafast.net.au) Received: (qmail 26004 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2001 00:39:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO corey.datafast.net.au) (203.123.67.125) by mailhub.datafast.net.au with SMTP; 10 Aug 2001 00:39:20 -0000 Received: from corey by corey.datafast.net.au with local (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 15V0Kc-00025u-00; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:39:18 +1000 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:39:18 +1000 From: Corey Ralph To: Fabrizio Ravazzini Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMTP very very slow! Message-ID: <20010810103918.A7971@corey.datafast.net.au> References: <20010809120615.73455.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010809120615.73455.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Are you starting qmail-smtpd from inetd or tcpserver? If tcpserver, you can use the -H flag to disable looking up the host name, and -R to disable the ident lookup. Alternately, make sure that you aren't blocking the ident lookup with a firewall. It is 113/udp. Cheers On 09/08/01 14:06 +0200, Fabrizio Ravazzini wrote: > 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 > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Corey Ralph corey.ralph@datafast.net.au System Administrator +61 3 5278 3955 Datafast Telecommunications ------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message