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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:54:22 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: John Frader <nat@mylanders.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Sendmail being real slow
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On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 08:56:30AM -0600, John Frader wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On one of our 2.2.1 machines sendmail is real slow. When I use pine or
> mail to send a message to a local user or a remote user it takes between
> 2-3 min. for the message to go. In pine it just stays at
>
> Sending mail |     0%   |] then it finally goes. The machine right now is
> only used as a raduis server and the load on the system is null. Mail
> works fine sending to the machine. And there is no errors in the logs.
>
> Any suggestions as to what might be wrong?

Assuming that your machines are not badly overloaded, you can assume
that this is not a question of horsepower.  I'd look at the DNS
configuration first.

Greg