This is solved. It was a DNS issue that had our primary e-mail server
trying to field these messages.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Handy" <jehandy@bellatlantic.net>
To: <majordomo-users@greatcircle.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 12:57 PM
Subject: slow outgoing mail
> I am running:
> Majordomo 1.94.5
> RedHat Linux 7.0 with standard version of sendmail
> on a pentium III 450 with 128MB RAM
>
> It seems to take a long time for messages to get sent out on this server.
> Just a straight email from one of my other accounts to a local account on
> the list server arrives almost immediately. Also, if I email a command to
> majordomo while at the console the response is almost immediate. If I send
a
> command or post from my standard e-mail account, which is on a different
> server and domain altogether, the list server takes 5 minutes to send a
> receipt and 8 to 10 minutes to respond to the command or post.
>
> The problem must be in sendmail or the basic network configuration of the
> machine, although I can ping things by name and number so its not a name
> resolution issue. However, when I do ping there is a lag of a few seconds
> and then all the replies show up at once with no packet loss.
>
> Could it be some sort of SMTP connect timeout issue?
>
> Other than this everything seems to work fine.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jack
>
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