I recently found that exim was taking a long time to accept messages, and traced it back to a bogus `search' entry in /etc/resolv.conf. After commenting out the entry, all is well again.
The entry had been in place for two years... no idea why it suddenly became a problem. On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:51:14PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I'm noticing in the past 24-48 hours that Mutt seems to have turned > into a dog <g> on 'send'. There's a noticeable delay -- call it 2-3 > seconds, when I submit a message to queue. Not sure if this is mutt > or exim or another part of the process, and not quite sure where to > start looking. System load hasn't changed notably. Confusion reigns.
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