[TriLUG] Sending mail is slow

[Jon Carnes]

What version are you using?

Sendmail is setup by default on RedHat to be as slow as it can possibly be.
For one thing, it is set by default to use Ident... Now why in the heck
anyone would do that is beyond me. In your sendmail.cf file find the Ident
time out and change it to zero!

O Timeout.ident=0s

Also, run a local caching Named server on the same machine as sendmail.

Those two tweaks will let sendmail run as fast as Postfix for moderate to
low traffic sites (say under 8k messages a day, sendmail running on a
PIII-450).

HtH - Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janyne Kizer" <janyne_kizer at ncsu.edu>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 8:52 AM
Subject: [TriLUG] Sending mail is slow


> I am not sure if this has to do with Linux or Netscape or the mail
> server being used.  What I am seeing is that sending mail appears to be
> much faster under Windows and Solaris than it is under Linux.  In all
> cases, I am using Netscape Messenger to send mail.  It seems that the
> Solaris and Linux versions of Netscape should be similar enough that it
> would not be a Netscape issue but who knows?  I can duplicate this on my
> home machine (hardware firewall) and my work machine (iptables
> firewall).  Thanks!
> --
>
> Janyne Kizer
> CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5
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> NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
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