Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:13:44 +0100 From: Sasa Stupar <sasa@stupar.homelinux.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Q ML <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Long delay when sending mail Message-ID: <04358AD3700C79B569B2BA92@[192.168.10.249]> In-Reply-To: <43A54466.3060502@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <F403D998D6BBED02D84B1F2E@[192.168.10.249]> <43A54466.3060502@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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--On 18. december 2005 11:13 +0000 Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > Sasa Stupar wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have configured mail server on FreeBSD 5.4 with sendmail 8.13.5 and >> cyrus-imapd v2. I am also using client Mulberry (but also tested with >> Tbird, Outlook Express, Outlook). I use IMAP access with all the >> clients, the server is on the same network as clients (100 Mbit >> network). The issue is when I try to send several messages one after >> another I get smtp delay message and this sometimes takes for 30 sec to >> a minute. My sendmail has configured a smart host and also to accept >> unqualified domains. >> I have attached my sendmail config. >> What am I missing here? > > 30s delays sounds like DNS timeouts. Check that the host running sendmail > can do a reverse lookup on the IP number of the clients connecting to it. > Simply putting IPs and hostnames of all your client boxes into /etc/hosts > should fix the problem. It is allready able to do a reverse lookup on clients. > > Alternatively, that delay could be due to the ident protocol. Ident is > trivially easy to spoof which makes it a pointless waste of time. > Putting: > > define(`confTO_IDENT', `0')dnl > > in your .mc file will stop ident getting in your hair. > This is allready defined also. > The third possibility is that you've got quite a few milters set up there > and sendmail simply needs a bit of time to run each message through all of > them. > > Cheers, > > Matthew Will try without milters but there are only two milters sendmail and clamav. But is this possible also to be an imap issue since I use it to read my mail and also to store all outgoing mail? -- Sasa Stupar
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