On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:05:58PM -0600, Gary wrote:
> Lately, I have been having a strange thing happen. When I send off
> mail, either a new one or a reply, after hitting "y", it just seems to
> hang for a long time, and takes a minute or more for the mail to be
> sent. I have checked my sendmail, muttrc, etc, but could not see
> anything different. It just says, "sending mail" and takes a long
> time. At other times, it sends it right away. Has anybody else had
> this delay? Cron is set for hourly.
I get that with network-related problems. Try a tail -f on the appropriate
log file where sendmail is sending its messages during your send. Maybe your
DNS lookups are really slow, or sendmail is lagging due to network problems.
Mike
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