On Sunday 27 May 2012, Gaurang Aggarwal wrote: > Hello , > > > As Raj said I exactly used : > tail -f /var/log/mail.log > while sending a email from the web application > > May 27 12:17:33 uni2versity sendmail[13521]: q4R8GXih013521: to= > m...@gaurang.me, ctladdr=cont...@skilledinterns.com (33/33), > delay=00:01:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30423, > relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (q4R8HXG1013909 > Message accepted for delivery) May 27 12:17:34 uni2versity > sm-mta[13912]: STARTTLS=client, relay= aspmx.l.google.com., > version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL, cipher=RC4-SHA, bits=128/128 > May 27 12:17:34 uni2versity sm-mta[13912]: q4R8HXG1013909: > to=<m...@gaurang.me>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, > pri=120740, relay= aspmx.l.google.com. [209.85.225.26], dsn=2.0.0, > stat=Sent (OK 1338106654 l17si3694120iga.62) > May 27 12:20:01 uni2versity sm-msp-queue[15508]: My unqualified host > name (uni2versity) unknown; sleeping for retry > May 27 12:21:01 uni2versity sm-msp-queue[15508]: unable to qualify my > own domain name (uni2versity) -- using short name > May 27 12:40:02 uni2versity sm-msp-queue[5376]: My unqualified host > name (uni2versity) unknown; sleeping for retry
There you go, that's the problem. Your hostname is unknown and sendmail is failing/slowing down because of that. Make sure that (a) your "hostname" command returns a fully-qualified host name, and (b) that fully-qualified host name exists at least in /etc/hosts. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
