From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 11 02:53:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4340516A468 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:53:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhfoo-ml@extracktor.com) Received: from mail.extracktor.com (www.nexlabs.com [210.193.32.133]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737CB13C45E for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:53:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhfoo-ml@extracktor.com) Received: (qmail 76815 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2007 02:11:00 -0000 Received: from 62.210-193-15.adsl.qala.com.sg (HELO ?192.168.1.106?) (jhfoo@nexlabs.com@210.193.15.62) by www.nexlabs.com with SMTP; 11 Jun 2007 02:11:00 -0000 Message-ID: <466CB2DF.30808@extracktor.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:26:39 +0800 From: Foo JH User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Shorten delay in sending mail to SMTP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:53:15 -0000 Hi all, I'm using inetd + qmail to implement a mail server. The combo works, but usually sending a mail takes some 5-10 seconds. I suspect it's largely because inetd or qmail is trying to do some dns lookup or something, before letting it through. Is there any way to shorten this process - if possible eliminate it altogether? Some time back, there was an advice to avoid inetd. It's probably a good idea, but I hope to deal with this first before moving forward on the setup. Appreciate any advice. Thanks.