From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 19 08:14:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B044C16A41F for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:14:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sasa@stupar.homelinux.net) Received: from avs4.arnes.si (avs4.arnes.si [193.2.1.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190C443D45 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:14:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sasa@stupar.homelinux.net) Received: from localhost (avs4.arnes.si [193.2.1.77]) by avs4.arnes.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF172C36E3; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:14:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from avs4.arnes.si ([193.2.1.77]) by localhost (avs4.arnes.si [193.2.1.77]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 85652-02-4; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:14:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from xmail.homelinux.net (cmb16-74.dial-up.arnes.si [194.249.51.74]) by avs4.arnes.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A5AB2C3724; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:13:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.10.249] (master.workgroup [192.168.10.249]) (authenticated bits=0) by xmail.homelinux.net (8.13.5/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jBJ8DhQ0020205; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:13:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sasa@stupar.homelinux.net) Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:13:44 +0100 From: Sasa Stupar To: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <04358AD3700C79B569B2BA92@[192.168.10.249]> In-Reply-To: <43A54466.3060502@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <43A54466.3060502@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on mig29.workgroup X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at arnes.si Cc: FreeBSD Q ML Subject: Re: Long delay when sending mail 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, 19 Dec 2005 08:14:35 -0000 --On 18. december 2005 11:13 +0000 Matthew Seaman 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