sendmail slow after upgrading to 10-RELEASE

[Charles Swiger]

On Jun 19, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Chuck @ Mantis <chuck at mantis.biz> wrote:
> test at test.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
> 
> ***the above line takes 5 seconds then the rest of the output is quick and sends the e-mail fine***

That implies you don't have an PTR record for 127.0.0.1 in your DNS.
"dig -x 127.0.0.1" should return something like:

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.		IN	PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.	3600	IN	PTR	localhost.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck