[Mailman-Users] Qrunner probs. with Sendmail

[Orion (Steve Pirk)]

One of the things I noticed that would cause slow mail delievery
was reverse lookup of your IP. A lot of mail servers try and 
authenticate you box when you make a mail connection, and being
able to do an nslookup of your IP address really helps.

I have mine configured to try to send messages for 5 days. This
way, if a mail server out there is fubar'd, the messages do not
immediatly dissappear.

Steve
orion at deathcon.com Owner/Admin
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Ryan K. Brooks wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
>     I'm having the (somewhat) classic problem of queue runs hanging up
> an entire list when a domain doesn't resolve quickly.  I'm on a FreeBSD
> 4.2 system, with sendmail 8.11.1.    95% of the time my lists run great,
> but when a user's DNS servers go south, I'll have to set him/her to
> nomail and pull the messages from the queue.
> 
>     I see in the FAQ that one recommendation is to make sure I'm not
> trying to resolve my own address when my MTA is making local delivery.
> I don't think I'm doing this anyway, and I can always look myself up
> just fine, as I run my own nameservers, but I'm not sure if the
> configuration issue expressed in the FAQ with Exim is relevant to
> sendmail. (see the second Q/A at http://www.list.org/faq.html).
> 
>     In any case, I was wondering if any folks had some tips on where to
> start with this problem.   Could the cause of this problem contribute to
> my somewhat poor message turn around time?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> R Brooks
> 
> 
> 
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