[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail slow to respond

Neil Aggarwal neil at JAMMConsulting.com
Thu May 12 14:08:42 CDT 2005


Brad:

When I do:
	service sendmail restart

I does it very quickly.

Is is possible this is a bug in sendmail 8.12.11?

Thanks,
	Neil


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org 
> [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf Of brad angelcyk
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 1:36 PM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail slow to respond
> 
> 
> How long does it take to restart the sendmail process?  I had this
> same problem, and just restarting the process would take a good
> minute.  Fixing DNS/hosts got it working like it should, though.
> 
> 
> On 5/12/05, Neil Aggarwal <neil at jammconsulting.com> wrote:
> > Hello:
> > 
> > This is strange.  Today, two different clients called me telling me
> > that they are unable to send email from Outlook.  They keep getting
> > a message that their connection timed out when connecting 
> to the SMTP
> > server.
> > 
> > I am at one of these clients' sites and when I do:
> >   telnet 192.168.1.1 25
> > it takes about 30 seconds to give me a response from sendmail.
> > 
> > I eventually get back:
> >   220 www.homexcorp.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.11/8.12.11; 
> Thu, 12 May 2005
> > 11:55:22 -0500
> > which looks like, but it takes a long time to get it.
> > 
> > I believe this is the source of the problem -- Outlook gives up when
> > waiting for sendmail to respond.
> > 
> > Any ideas what could be happening?
> > 
> > I find it strange that two separate people called me with the exact
> > same symptoms on the same morning.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >   Neil
> > 
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