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Date:      Thu, 02 Nov 2000 20:25:09 +0000
From:      ark <ark@pc759.cs.msu.su>
To:        banning.com!david@pc759.cs.msu.su
Cc:        FreeBSD.ORG!questions@pc759.cs.msu.su
Subject:   Re: why does sendmail take so long to send?
Message-ID:  <3A01CDA5.7E614F1C@pc759.cs.msu.su>
References:  <200011011453.OAA62870@d.tracker>

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David Banning wrote:
> 
> After send a message with mutt or mail, send-mail tends to take about
> 10 minutes or so to send it.
> 
> I continue to do a;
> 
>  $ ps ax | grep send
> and get
> 
>   139  ??  Ss     0:03.31 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25 (sendmail)
> 62599  p3  S      0:00.23 send-mail -i lowell@world.std.com (sendmail)
> 62655  p3  S      0:00.15 send-mail -i ggrx@cris.com (sendmail)

It means that connection to that address is not good. Or somethere near
you recipient
Net went down. You can safely reboot - it will deliver next time you
boot FreeBSD.

> 
> showing recent emails going out...
> 
> what is it waiting for - it wouldn't be an issue, but right
> now I need to shut down the system, fire up windows 95, do
> some work - and leave to do some tasks.  I'm kept waiting
> here on sendmail...
> 
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