Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

Jerry Geis wrote:

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My guess would be a resolving problem also. Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. Check your /etc/hosts file Dan

My /etc/hosts file is only has the "nameserver x.x.x.x" entry.

That should be in /etc/resolv.conf.

the /var/log/maillog shows the entry right away when "mail" on the command line is done.

There should be an entry for submitting the mail and another for delivering it.

Again, this is mail originating on the the box and destination is on the same box.

What's the address?

mailq always shows 0, even doing it repeatedly.

the mail delivery is delayed exactly 2 minutes.

That's a few DNS timeouts.

I have 127.0.0.1 localhost in the /etc/hosts file.

Very odd, any thoughts?

Are you mailing to localhost?