> n*5s delay *may* indicate unresponsive DNS host(s)/resolver(s) in /etc/hots > [ at least it should be ruled out ] >
Nah both are university DNS servers that are current. > > How long does it take to get SMTP greeting message when you start > "/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs" as a non root user? > [ Is it sendmail startup or message processing? ] > The latter, starts up and restarts quickly, couple seconds. > > > [...] > > Jul 13 23:04:05 storm spamd[13378]: spamd: processing message < > 9ca00a710c6bfad3d60dd424cd79ac19.squirrel@our-domain> for root:1001 > > Jul 13 23:04:20 storm spamd[13378]: spamd: clean message (-101.5/5.0) > for root:1001 in 15.0 seconds, 1193 bytes. > > Jul 13 23:04:20 storm spamd[13378]: spamd: result: . -101 - > ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,PYZOR_CHECK,USER_IN_WHITELIST > > scantime=15.0 [...] > > Hitting PYZOR_CHECK is scary. So I can try and disable to see if there's a difference. Sounds like we should also try a local DNS server too... > >