Note that if you set up sendmail on a local box, make sure it either
handballs stuff off to a smarthost straight away, or you have stuff
set up to check for sendmail getting upset and just queuing messages
for ever. Normally you'd notice breakages on your mail server - but
your web server
Kapil Thangavelu wrote:
sent. i was planning on doing this from python with either calls to the
mailhost or smtplib.
MailHost uses smptlib now, IIRC
It's the call to mailhost.send() which is slow. I'd love to know why :S
How much influence does the the mail server speed have to this? How can
Chris Withers wrote:
It's the call to mailhost.send() which is slow. I'd love to know why :S
How much influence does the the mail server speed have to this? How can
I measure it? ;-)
Set up Sendmail on localhost and see if the problem goes away. Sendmail
(and most other mail servers) will
Shane Hathaway wrote:
It's the call to mailhost.send() which is slow. I'd love to know why :S
How much influence does the the mail server speed have to this? How can
I measure it? ;-)
Set up Sendmail on localhost and see if the problem goes away.
localhost is a windows NT
Chris Withers wrote:
localhost is a windows NT workstation ;-)
^^
This is the real problem and you know it. ;-)
Hmm, I think our mailserver, which I was using for this, does a DNS
check on the domain names to make sure they exist. I wonder if this is
what is
