Re: [aclug-L] Email on the Lan

["Carl B. Davis" <cdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got another response to my post that tipped me to the problem.  It was
trying to resolve using DNS, which I'm not using.  IP addresses are
statically assigned.  I made a few changes and voila!.  Thanks for your
assistance. 

Carl

Carl D Cravens wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Carl (raven@xxxxxxxxxxx)
> 
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