Sendmail slow?

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 19:57 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:

> Wireshark shows a 5 second period between the connection to port 587 and 
> the 220 message from sendmail.  That's where my problem is.
> 
> Do you know of any configuration that would cause that sort of a delay?

You might try running strace on the listening SMTP process with timer
option to see where the delay is creeping in.  Something like

sudo strace -f -p <pid> -o <output_file> -t

You need the -f to pick up the forked processes as the listening
sendmail handles the connections.  The -t will give you timestamps on
each system call.
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