Subject: RE: AIX Slow Sendmail

From: Roger Sabin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:11:34 -0700

After we defined localhost in /etc/hosts and set smtp-server to localhost, sending mail is much faster. 
Thanks.

Roger Sabin
[email-masked]

-----Original Message-----
From:	Terry Gray [SMTP:[email-masked]]
Sent:	Thursday, February 18, 1999 3:30 PM
To:	Roger Sabin
Cc:	Pine Discussion Forum
Subject:	RE: AIX Slow Sendmail

If you set smtp-server to localhost, does that help/hurt?

-teg

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Roger Sabin wrote:

> To answer your questions:
> 
> AIX 4.3
> Using whatever version of sendmail was shipped
> Pine 4.05
> Downloaded pine-bin.aix4.2, did not build our own copy of Pine
> We do not have /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/netsvc.conf. We are only using
> Pine internally for now.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Roger Sabin
> [email-masked]
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Shane Castle [SMTP:[email-masked]]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 16, 1999 1:33 PM
> To:	Pine Discussion Forum
> Subject:	Re: AIX Slow Sendmail
> 
> On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Roger Sabin wrote (without using his enter key):
> 
> >I am helping a company setup Pine on an AIX RS6000 box. (Don't know
> >the AIX version, but the box was purchased within the last year.) Pine
> >appears to be sending messages, but it takes a looooong time to process
> >the send. The screen shows "sending 0%" for a very long time. Is this
> >correct? Can it be fixed?
> 
> I have no problems at all with pine on ours (AIX 4.1.5, Pine 4.10,
> sendmail 8.9.2, RS6000 7015-R50).  You will have to answer these
> questions:
> 
> What release of AIX?
> Is the sendmail the one shipped with AIX or is it locally built?
> If locally built, what release is it?
> What release of Pine?
> Was Pine built correctly? (sometimes a matter of personal preference)
> 
> The answer might lie in none of the above.  Improper DNS configurations
> have been known to cause slow MUA communications with sendmail.  Check the
> /etc/resolv.conf and if there is an /etc/netsvc.conf.  Do they have the
> correct information in them?
> 
>