[toaster] SMTP timeout sending mail

[J.T. Johnston]

In the last few days I have been having extremely long waits when 
sending emails.  It is now to the point that most mail clients timeout 
before the server responds.  I have connected via telnet on port 25 and 
noticed that I connect but have a wait of 1 to 2 minutes before the '220 
- mail.mydomain.com Welcome to Qmail Toaster...' line comes up.  The 
last time I had a problem with email similar to this, the DNS servers 
that I use had changed (I'm not using DNS caching).  Now, it appears 
that DNS lookups are very quick (pinging google.com returns an address 
immediately & receiving email is not a problem).  Any suggestions?

Thanks,
J.T. Johnston
Monroeville, AL