Vijay Kumar rearranged electrons thusly:
> I am running Sendmail. From the last couple of weeks I am having some
> problems with my Sendmail Server. The SMTP connections takes a long time to
> connect & send any mail out of my server. All the clients ( Outlook Express,
> KMail etc ) have problems in connecting to the mail server i.e it takes more
> than a minute for every mail that has to be sent out through the mail
> server. There is no problem in receiving any mail. I have also disabled the
> DNS option in Sendmail.
Hi
SMTP connection delays from clients to your server can be avoided by
1. Setting up proper DNS and rDNS for your clients
2. Setting Ident timeout to zero in sendmail
3. Setting up a hosts.allow entry for your LAN (if you dont want to set up DNS
properly)
-s
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