Jerry Geis wrote: > I am trying to find a way to "speed" up sendmail going out of my box. > > I am setting SMART_HOST. Dont get me wrong email does go out it just > takes > like 3-4 minutes to get there. > > When I do "mail xxxx at y.com" and send it the /var/log/maillog file shows > the connection and shows the relay as [127.0.0.1]. Then it just SITS > there for a long time. > > Then it picks up the mail and delivers it. No errors are show, no > timeouts etc... > > My box does not have an MX record as I am behind the firewall > (192.168.1.X). > > I have set the /etc/sysconfig/sendmail QUEUE=1m but that does not seem > to help either. > > There is nothing else happening on my box so that is not slowing > anything down. > > I've done some google'ing, some playing and nothing has helped. I > tried adding the service.switch > to sendmail.mc, I tried temporarily taking out dns from nsswitch.conf > - and nothing seemed to help. > > How can I get emails exiting my box faster. > > Jerry > Gregory - Thanks for the DNS info. Another avenue I just tried was setting up AuthInfo with a user and account and that goes much faster now also. Perhaps loging in to the email server by passes any DNS lookup it was trying to do. Thanks, Jerry