Re: [aclug-L] Email on the Lan

[Carl D Cravens <raven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Carl B. Davis wrote:

> The questions are What should the mail server preferences be in
> Netscape?  Is Sendmail always this slow?  Any thoughts as to what might
> be causing it?  The server is a P133 and is not heavily used, so it
> shouldn't be bogged with other jobs.   Any tips or tricks will be
> appreciated. 

Can you telnet from the Windows box to the SMTP port (25 normally) on
linux?  First verify that you can reach the SMTP server before messing
with Netscape.  "telnet <host> 25"

Sendmail generally isn't that slow... I run it on a 486/133 and get great
performance.  I assume that you're using its default configuration.  I
wonder if it's trying to do some name lookup and timing out on that...
can the machine reach a well-connected DNS server?  Do you have your own
domain name and is the Windows machine properly configured with it, or is
this internal-only email?  (Sendmail is probably over-kill for a small,
intranet mail service.  You might look at some of the other mail servers.)
If this is internal mail only and you're using a hosts table, make sure
that sendmail isn't configured to use DNS, which I believe is the default. 

I'll stop here and see what we learn from this.

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Carl (raven@xxxxxxxxxxx)

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