"Gaurav Agarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I use microsoft outlook to read and send mails from my linux server over
> tcp/ip connection through modem and tel lines ...
> so, though i can now retrive my mails from the linux server , it still takes
> lot of time in sending even a single line of message ...
> I used the ip address of my machine for the SMTP field required in outlook.
> I guess that the ip address for sendmail still is not resolved and that
> takes the time ...
> plus since i just reinstalled the linux (red hat 6) you can expect the
> standard sendmail... ( i havent fiddled with it .)
> Thanks a lot
> Regards,
> Gaurav.
I would guess that sendmail tries to resolve backwards your IP address,
and waits until a gethostbyaddr() times out.
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Giorgos Keramidas, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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