Re: Shorten delay in sending mail to SMTP

2007-06-12 Thread Foo JH
Thanks Nicole. This may end up as a qmail question now: is there a way to disable dns lookup for qmail then? Olivier Nicole wrote: Can anyone confirm that Qmail/ inetd/ FreeBSD does some form of dns lookup on it's SMTP? It most certainly does, that would be configurable, but you can conf

Re: Shorten delay in sending mail to SMTP

2007-06-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Can anyone confirm that Qmail/ inetd/ FreeBSD does some form of dns > lookup on it's SMTP? It most certainly does, that would be configurable, but you can confirm that by yourself: look at the full headers of the email you receive, you should see some headers saying something like: Received: f

Re: Shorten delay in sending mail to SMTP

2007-06-12 Thread Foo JH
Olivier, I have no visibility on the delay on which external smtp servers deliver mails to my mail server. Once a mail is sent out of my mail client, the mail can be received immediately through my imap client. To give a more detailed picture on load, my Qmail does not really a heavy load. I

Re: Shorten delay in sending mail to SMTP

2007-06-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Thanks for the reply. What happens during the sending of any email, is > that my Thunderbird will show 'Connected to mail.xyz.com...' for a > couple of seconds. Bear in mind that my (test) mails are very short, so > it can't be due to data transfer. After that the text says sending mail > and

Re: Shorten delay in sending mail to SMTP

2007-06-12 Thread Foo JH
Hello Lowell and Chuck, Thanks for the reply. What happens during the sending of any email, is that my Thunderbird will show 'Connected to mail.xyz.com...' for a couple of seconds. Bear in mind that my (test) mails are very short, so it can't be due to data transfer. After that the text says s

Re: Shorten delay in sending mail to SMTP

2007-06-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jun 10, 2007, at 7:26 PM, Foo JH wrote: I'm using inetd + qmail to implement a mail server. The combo works, but usually sending a mail takes some 5-10 seconds. I suspect it's largely because inetd or qmail is trying to do some dns lookup or something, before letting it through. Is

Re: Shorten delay in sending mail to SMTP

2007-06-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Foo JH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using inetd + qmail to implement a mail server. The combo works, > but usually sending a mail takes some 5-10 seconds. > > I suspect it's largely because inetd or qmail is trying to do some dns > lookup or something, before letting it through. Is there any

Shorten delay in sending mail to SMTP

2007-06-10 Thread Foo JH
Hi all, I'm using inetd + qmail to implement a mail server. The combo works, but usually sending a mail takes some 5-10 seconds. I suspect it's largely because inetd or qmail is trying to do some dns lookup or something, before letting it through. Is there any way to shorten this process - i