Re: sending mail from sendmail is very slow!!!!

mark <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 08/01/12 02:52, raj sourabh wrote:
> Thanks all for your replies.
>
> The following changes saved lot of time and now mails are processed within
> 5 sec :)
>
> I was trying to sendmail to gmail account. here is wat my host file looks
> like..
>
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost TESTSRV
> 192.168.11.50           TESTSRV
> ::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
> 173.194.79.27 gmail.com
> 173.194.79.27 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
> ~

That's *not* good. You shouldn't have anything that you don't control in 
your hosts file. Worst case: put google's nameservers in your resolv.conf

	mark

>
>
> Thank you all for your help...
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Corey Kovacs<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>> Raj, can we assume you've monitored /var/log/maillog on the various servers
>> in the chain to see if any helpful messages exist? That's where I'd start
>> see if sendmail has anything specific it is complaining about.
>> On Jul 29, 2012 11:24 AM, "raj sourabh"<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am using a sendmail for sending alerts and notification from RHEL
>> server
>>> 5.5. But the sendmail process is very slow and it takes around 2 minutes
>> to
>>> complete.
>>>
>>> Is there any way i can make it faster?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advace.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Raj
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