Have there been any changes on the DNS setup for your system; i.e., your
nameservers. In my experience this has been the #1 cause of delays,
because email/qmail depends heavliy on DNS service. I have several
nameserver changeovers, and when things are not exactly kosher, qmail
grinds to a crawl.
Secondly, look at the que and see what is there.
my $0.02
--Pete
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Tom Jackson wrote:
> My qmail has been running fine for a year or more. Now it is very slow
> to accept connections on SMTP or POP3 ports.
>
> I get this behavior from other computers on the local network, but
> everything works as usual from the qmail server.
>
> I've tried it with telnet, Netscape and other software with the same
> results.
>
> What can/should I check?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Tom Jackson
>
