I thought it might be a DNS problem too (the sendmail FAQ said that it might be) but when sending mail while logged onto the server box took a long time too I discarded the idea...
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:27 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > Ever since I installed Gentoo on my server box SMTP to the server and > > mail sent from the command line on the server has been slow. I looked > > it up on the sendmail FAQ, (Q3.12) and they said that I could add: > > > > define(`confTO_IDENT',`0s')dnl > > > > to my /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and m4 the file to sendmail.cf, but when I > > try this I can no longer connect to the server's port 25 from remote > > machines. Has anyone dealt with this? I am running sendmail version > > 8.13... > > Slow connections may be because of either a reverse DNS lookup that fails > (hence there is a delay while it timesout) or an IDENT lookup. (Google for > IDENT and you will see what it is). > > Don't know much about sendmail (apart from it being horrible to configure > - much better to go with postfix, exim or qmail IMHO). > > > -- > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
