On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote:
Mail is flowing here at espersunited.com, but SMTP connection is really slow. Takes over a minute to connect to the server box and send an email. I checked the FAQ and sendmail.org and it suggested something I could try. I tried it, and it spead smtp up by a few seconds, but not much more. The FAQ said that if their fix didn't work it was probably a DNS issue. I don't think there's much I can do about it for now until I learn more about DNS...
Probably reverse DNS.
24.117.226.93 has no reverse DNS setup, my personal preferance when I'm on a residential connection is to smarthost my sendmail configuration through my ISP. (It's actually very good practice)
add the following to your sendmail.mc file
define(`SMART_HOST',`your.isp.mailserver')dnl
That way all outgoing messages will go out through your ISP's server.
Also, if you are connecting from the internal side you can setup a hosts file on the sendmail box with your internal IP Address given a name.
192.168.1.3 two-proc_secure 192.168.1.4 jen2
etc...
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