Charles,
CC: rh-list.
Sorry if I'm being too simplistic here, but I think you probably want as
much detail as possible in help fixing this.
To me it doesn't sound (well, not definitely anyways...) like a DNS/Bind
issue on your machine.
You can verify if it is or not by doing a 'sendmail -bp' on the machine
running the sendmail server, and if you see lots of things like
'hostname lookup failure', then you know your problem is with BIND/DNS.
However I think it's more likely that your server is accepting the mails
ok, but you're seeing slow performance because it's just queueing them
(which I believe 'ultra-safe' mode in sendmail does) before doing
anything with them.
If you see loads of entries in 'sendmail -bp' with no errors on them,
then try doing a 'sendmail -q' [ Force a queue run! ], and if you see a
flood of emails coming right through, then you know that the mails are
just being queued, rather than there being any other kinds of problems.
If you do a 'sendmail -q', and that doesn't happen, then you might want
to try a 'sendmail -q -vv', which will be 'very verbose' when it runs
the queue, and the output from that will almost certainly tell you
what's up.
If you want to tailor queue running behaviour, try changing the
'MaxQueueRunSize' directive in /etc/sendmail.cf [ although this should
be of no effect except on REALLY heavily used servers ], and also try
changing your init script's (/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail) invocation of
sendmail to include say a '-q5m' to force the mail queue to be processed
every five minutes rather than the default (which I believe is about 30
minutes). [ I think this might be the same as setting 'MinQueueAge'
different in /etc/sendmail.cf, but I'm not sure ]
Gods I've spent too long reading up on sendmail ;-)
Yours,
Kev/Kyrian.
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 00:14:23 -0500
From: "Eddie Strohmier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: SENDMAIL (Anyone receiving this?)
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Yup, but only if configured to run without "bind". See the FAQ below.
http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.22
I am not sure what his problem was but DNS is always a good guess given
the
info that was supplied. It could also be misconfigured if "named" is
running
and that would slow down sendmail big time. Check out the FAQ's.
Eddie
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From: Charles Galpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, June 18, 2000 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: SENDMAIL (Anyone receiving this?)
>
>
>On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Eddie Strohmier wrote:
>
>> Jon:
>>
>> I see you have hosts set up, but do you have "named" running on one of
the
>> machines so sendmail can translate hostnames. I believe you need "named"
>> (bind) to allow sendmail to run. Check out www.sendmail.org under FAQ
>> section. I am sure "bind" is required at least it is for a large network.
>>
>> Eddie Strohmier
>
>nope, sendmail has been running fine for a coupel of years on a system
>with no dns server, just hosts files.
>
>charles
>
>
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