First, please try to do it manually, like this:
--- begin session ----
# telnet 127.0.0.1 25
Connected to ....
220 bla bla
ehlo localhost
250 ok
mail from: test@localhost
250 ok
rcpt to: test@localhost
data
354
test
.
250 ok
quit
221 bye
Connection closed by foreign host
# 
---- here ends session ----
Of course, replace 127.0.0.1 with the addr. of the email server, and
replace test@localhost with a valid email address. See if the problem
persists. If it does, hmmm... maybe I shouldn't recommend this solution,
since it is, effectively, bare bones.... What I do in these (extreme)
cases is to run a strace(1) on the respective daemon. If you don't know
what strace is, please read the man page. It basically shows every
system call the respective program does. In the case of a daemon, you
must run it like this:
-telnet again to the port 25 on console 1
-on console 2, do on the email server a "ps -aux" and notice the PID of
the smtp process just launched (it should be somewhere at the end of the
listing)
-on console 2,do strace -p <PID_OF_EMAIL_SERVER> -s 200
on console 1, start doing the session again and notice in the session 2
where (in between what functions) the smtp process is delaying.

Hope you manage - and good luck,

Iustin Pop


On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 03:30, Jeff Rosenberg wrote:
> I am noticing very slow performance both when sending a message via SMTP and also 
>the amount of time it takes for that message to plop into the inbox.
> 
> When sending to our Courier .38 server with a mail client, the delay is between 15 
>and 20 seconds from the time you click "send" to the time the message is finally 
>sent.   It is up to 30 seconds later that the message is finally delivered in the 
>inbox (clicking "receive" repeatedly). which is strange, since it's the same machine 
>for both SMTP and IMAP  (or pop...same results)
> 
> The same behavior happens for a routed SMTP message (if it was sent by another 
>server to our server).   Significant delay.
> 
> To complicate matters, we also run squirrelmail (webmail) on the same box, and when 
>a message is sent via SM's webmail interface, the message is sent in a second, and 
>appears instantly in the inbox!  Just as I would expect!
> 
> 
> So I don't know where to start looking.   I disabled DNS lookups, disabled all RBL 
>type lookups, restarted courier, and nothing.
> 
> 
> Anyone have any idea where I should start looking to troubleshoot this doozie?  The 
>machine only has about 8mb free ram (an issue we will fix shortly), but sits on a 
>hardware SCSI raid
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Jeff Rosenberg
> 
> (running on RedHat 7.1, hardware is dual 600mhz CPU HP NetServer)
> 



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