Sendmail slow...

[Matthew Seaman]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:07:21PM -0600, Scott Stahl wrote:
> Sendmail on my new FreeBSD 4.10 box seems to be VERY slow.   When I use the
> PHP mailer function it sometimes takes almost a minute to run sendmail.  On
> a closer look at my maillog there doesn't seem to be any errors and to log
> appears to be the same as when it isn't slow.  I thought maybe it was a
> indentd problem being caught on the firewall but issuing a ipfw disable
> firewall des not help.

Sounds as if you have DNS problems.  Make sure that the resolver on
the machine where you run sendmail can look up all addresses involving
your PHP/web server machine promptly.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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