Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:04:40 +0800 From: Foo JH <jhfoo-ml@extracktor.com> To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shorten delay in sending mail to SMTP Message-ID: <466F6CD8.8090201@extracktor.com> In-Reply-To: <200706130258.l5D2wGXT017437@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <466CB2DF.30808@extracktor.com> <9ADFB3BA-F02E-458D-80C1-2F13EAC769EF@mac.com> <466E695E.8030300@extracktor.com> <200706120949.l5C9nrPB088807@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <466EBC05.3020202@extracktor.com> <200706130258.l5D2wGXT017437@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Thanks Nicole. This may end up as a qmail question now: is there a way to disable dns lookup for qmail then? Olivier Nicole wrote: >> Can anyone confirm that Qmail/ inetd/ FreeBSD does some form of dns >> lookup on it's SMTP? >> > > It most certainly does, that would be configurable, but you can > confirm that by yourself: look at the full headers of the email you > receive, you should see some headers saying something like: > > Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [69.147.83.53]) > by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l5CFXURR030909 > for <on@cs.ait.ac.th>; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:33:34 +0700 (ICT) > > Now consider the top most of the Received-by headers, this top most > one has been generated by your qmail server. Does it have an IP > address associated to the the name of the sending machine > (mx2.freebsd.org [69.147.83.53])? If yes, it means qmail did some DNS > resolving. > > bests, > > Olivier >
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