Jerry Geis schrieb: >> 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. > > the /var/log/maillog shows the entry right away when "mail" on the > command line is done. > Again, this is mail originating on the the box and destination is on the > same box. > > mailq always shows 0, even doing it repeatedly. > > the mail delivery is delayed exactly 2 minutes. > > I have 127.0.0.1 localhost in the /etc/hosts file. Sendmail demands a dotted hostname in /etc/hosts for itself. "localhost" is not enough. "localhost.localdomain" (which is even the CentOS default for 127.0.0.1) works. > Very odd, any thoughts? > > Jerry Alexander