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