RE: [PHP] Mail slow

That sounds like a unix answer, I should probably have said that my web server is NT running Apache. Tim Ward Senior Systems Engineer Please refer to the following disclaimer in respect of this message: http://www.stivesdirect.com/e-mail-disclaimer.html > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Read [mailto:dread@texas.net] > Sent: 28 June 2001 17:20 > To: Tim Ward > Cc: PHP News Group (E-mail) > Subject: RE: [PHP] Mail slow > > > > On 27-Jun-01 Tim Ward wrote: > > I've finally got a mail client running on our web server > and it works fine, > > except in the time it takes to run the mail() function. > I've put diagnostics > > round the call and it seems to be taking 22 seconds to > return. All I'm doing > > is forwarding the results of an enquiry form as plain text. > I'm sure I've > > seen reference to this problem somewhere but can't remember > (or find) where > > it was. Can anyone out there help? > > Sounds like sendmail is timing-out on a dns lookup ... > is sendmail running as a daemon ? > > try it from the shell > df | /usr/sbin/sendmail auser@remote.com > > Regards, > -- > Don Read dread@texas.net > -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to > steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. >