- James DeMong [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| I've found that on occasion tcpserver/qmail-smtpd takes
| 10 seconds to give an "ok" to an smtpd connection attempt.
That could be the time taken by tcpserver to do various DNS lookups
and possibly also an ident lookup against the client. Perfectly
normal.
Russell Nelson wrote:
James DeMong writes:
I've found that on occasion tcpserver/qmail-smtpd takes
10 seconds to give an "ok" to an smtpd connection attempt.
Typically that's a DNS or indentd timeout. Can't be the latter since
you're using the -R switch. If you're concerned that it
James DeMong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I've found that on occasion tcpserver/qmail-smtpd takes
| 10 seconds to give an "ok" to an smtpd connection attempt.
Make sure you invoke it with the "-R" option, to tell it not to bother
wasting time on ``ident'' lookups.
James,
(I am trying to build a business case for my boss that qmail (on
Linux/PC) is _better_ than sendmail (on HP/PA) and I would like to have
every possible eveidence to back it up.)
I find these 2 URLs very convincing regarding sendmail security,
