Sendmail is very slow!

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:29:41PM +0200, Nedyalko wrote:
> I have installed sendmail on my ubuntu 9.10 and configured it with 
> sendmailconfigure. Then I installed mutt and mailutitls , so far so 
> good. But when I tried to send a mail it was slow... and by slow I mean 
> very slow, a minute or two per mail. Everything is normal ( my 113, 25 
> ports are opened , connection to my dns is good  - the problem appears 
> even with 8.8.8.8 )
> Where is the problem? How to fix it?

Try this in ~/.muttrc: set sendmail_wait=-1

Some delay with MTA's is probably normal. Not sure what's taking so long on
your system.

-- 
Hal