Re: Postfix Trouble2 (slow smtp connection)

[Andrea Berardi <syneus@email.it>]

Antony Gelberg wrote:
> Andrea Berardi wrote:
> 
>>Hello list,
>>I have just set up 2 mail-servers that act as MX for nearly 400 domains
>>and are used by a restricted group of clients for sending mail to the world
>>The "problem" is that sometimes the smtpd connection is slow (about 3 or
>>4 seconds) to send an email.
>>
>>By the hardware point of view the servers are powerful.
>>
>>Suggestions?
> 
> 
> Don't worry about it?  Why is three or four seconds a problem to send an
> email?
> 
> 
In fact wait for three or four seconds to send an email is not a big
problem, but if the servers are very powerful and often /usr/bin/w tell
me that the load is around 0,02 i wondered why sometimes the smtp
connection is so slow.

Probably, as Adrian Minta suggests, the delay is caused by the DNS lookup.

Thank you.
-- 
Andrea Berardi aka Syneus
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