sending mail from sendmail is very slow!!!!

[raj sourabh]

Well.. Right now the DNS ip addresses are only on resolve.conf..

Do i have to put the IP entries of target servers eg. gmail, exhange serves
in the /etc/hosts file??

Else where should i specify the DNS entries to sendout the mail fatster..

Thanks for help.

Raj

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:12 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> Jonathan Billings wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 1:16 PM, raj sourabh <rajsourabh1 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> 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?
>
> > First, I hope you're running with the latest updates, and not really RHEL
> > 5.5.
> >
> > It's not really possible to know exactly what is wrong from these
> somewhat
> > vague details, but I suggest looking at your DNS settings, particularly
> > for the hosts running sendmail.  As a quick guess: Sendmail is very picky
> > about DNS and if you are using any host names that don't resolve, it can
> take
> > longer than it would otherwise.
>
> If it's still that way, I'll second that - about 5 years ago, I had
> someone sending out email via a mailing list, and it was seriously
> ridiculous - many, many minutes, because of screwy recipient addresses.
>
>        mark
>
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