On Tuesday, 04.07.2006 at 17:56 +0100, Pete Clarke wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a Debian sarge mailserver, running exim4-daemon-heavy, > courier-pop/imap etc. > > When collecting email or using IMAP everything runs very well indeed, > however, when sending mail from a standard client (OE, Squirrelmail, Kmail, > Evolution, OSX mail app etc.) there is a long delay, upto a minute, before > the authentication process kicks in and the mail is sent. > > I am authenticating against an LDAP server (which is running on the same > box), all other authentications (PAM, Samba etc.) are instantaneous, it's > just sending mail that takes forever. You sure it's the authentication that's taking the time? A delay of a minute sounds suspiciously like a DNS timeout of some kind. Is the server able to resolve the hostname(s) of the connecting clients? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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