Sendmail delays

[Jay Lee]

Grant Ozolins wrote:
> Jay Lee wrote:
> 
>> Grant Ozolins wrote:
>>
>>> Hi List,
>>>
>>> Quite often when I try to send mail from either PHP or mutt (and 
>>> probably other processes too), it takes Sendmail some multiple of 5 
>>> seconds to accept the email and let the calling process get on with 
>>> things, i.e. 30, 35, 45, 55 seconds to accept the mail.
>>>
>>> My system is based around FC3-minimal on a dual opteron 244 box
>>>
>>> I'm using the stock sendmail.mc file except that I have
>>>
>>> dnlFEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> dnlDAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
>>>
>>> Commented.  I initially thought this might be a greet_pause type 
>>> thing, but it's not actually implemented.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sounds like DNS to me.  Even if sendmail is configured to accept 
>> unresolvable domains, it's going to sit there a long time waiting.  
>> What does:
>>
>> nslookup `hostname`
>>
>> return?  I'm not sure if sendmail uses /etc/hosts but try adding the 
>> output of hostname to /etc/hosts on the same line as "127.0.0.1 
>> localhost localhost.localdomain"
>>
>> Jay
> 
> 
> Hi Jay
> 
> Thanks so much for your reply - I do actually have my hostname in 
> /etc/hosts - the wierd thing to me is that (I should have mentioned in 
> my previous post) I was getting no such delay on FC3-32 on the same 
> hardware - but with FC3-x86_64 the delay is present.

Did you run the command?  What was the output?

Jay
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Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
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