On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Ever since I installed Gentoo on my server box SMTP to the server and > mail sent from the command line on the server has been slow. I looked > it up on the sendmail FAQ, (Q3.12) and they said that I could add: > > define(`confTO_IDENT',`0s')dnl > > to my /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and m4 the file to sendmail.cf, but when I > try this I can no longer connect to the server's port 25 from remote > machines. Has anyone dealt with this? I am running sendmail version > 8.13...
Slow connections may be because of either a reverse DNS lookup that fails (hence there is a delay while it timesout) or an IDENT lookup. (Google for IDENT and you will see what it is). Don't know much about sendmail (apart from it being horrible to configure - much better to go with postfix, exim or qmail IMHO). -- -- [email protected] mailing list
