[CentOS] sendmail question
Dan Carl
danc at bluestarshows.com
Wed Oct 21 15:44:04 UTC 2009
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Jerry Geis wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a local user account call "panel" on a machine.
>> When I use the mail command to manually send email to the panel account
>> it over 1 minute until that mail actually deposited in the mail account.
>>
>> What setting is that reduces this time?
>>
>> I changed /etc/sysconfig/sendmail the QUEUE=10s and that did not have
>> any effect.
>>
>
> You could look at /var/log/maillog to see what steps happened and the
> timestamps. My guess is that your DNS is badly broken and it is waiting
> for the local machine name and/or IP to resolve. Does 'nslookup' return
> quickly with these?
>
>
My guess would be a resolving problem also.
Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down.
Check your /etc/hosts file
Dan
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