I am sending an email from my machine devcentos5x64. the transcript below (hangs for 60 seconds) at the line: MAIL From:<root at devcentos5x64.msgnet.com> SIZE=56 AUTH=root at devcentos5x64.msgnet.com The email succeeds - but I am trying to figure out the 60 second delay. Neither email server is busy. Nothing is waiting. the DNS on both machines point to the same nameserver. The DNS responds very fast when looking up server names. What else can I look for to remove the slowness or delay? jerry ------------------------------------ date | mail -v -v -v -v geisj at pagestation.com geisj at pagestation.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay... 220 devcentos5x64.msgnet.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.8/8.13.8; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 10:02:15 -0500 >>> EHLO devcentos5x64.msgnet.com 250-devcentos5x64.msgnet.com Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP >>> MAIL From:<root at devcentos5x64.msgnet.com> SIZE=56 AUTH=root at devcentos5x64.msgnet.com 250 2.1.0 <root at devcentos5x64.msgnet.com>... Sender ok >>> RCPT To:<geisj at pagestation.com> >>> DATA 250 2.1.5 <geisj at pagestation.com>... Recipient ok 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself >>> . 250 2.0.0 o18F2FMV002336 Message accepted for delivery geisj at pagestation.com... Sent (o18F2FMV002336 Message accepted for delivery) Closing connection to [127.0.0.1] >>> QUIT 221 2.0.0 devcentos5x64.msgnet.com closing connection [root at devcentos5x64 src]#