take a sniffer trace while the email is sent. With timestamps and ethereal to decode the TCP stream, you shouls be able to figure out where the problem is.
You should explain more in details the mail setup: describe which machine send email to which smtp server etc..etc.. JeF On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 10:22, dan wrote: > Hi, > > I have written a system which sends out email to a database. > > Recently I have been experiencing major performance problems. The software > I have written and use has remained unchanged so I suspect I have a problem > with DNS resolutions on my Linux box. The emails themselves do get > delivered correctly but the process takes hours rather than minutes. > > I have contacted my hosting provider and they have said that there is a > reverse lookup address in their DNS. Can anyone help me find out and test > if the DNS the system is using is configured correctly? > > Does anyone know how I can track down the reason for the performance > bottleneck? > > I have also check my resolv.conf file and both the primary and secondary DNS > are specified there. > > Can anyone help? > > Dan > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- -> Jean-Francois Dive --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no such thing as randomness. Only order of infinite complexity. - Marquis de LaPlace - deterministic Principles - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
