Re: Sendmail greeting delay

[Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk>]

David Parker <dparker@utica.edu> wrote:
> We have an SMTP server running Sendmail 8.14.4-4 on Debian 7 64-bit.

> Kaccess hash -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/access
> # FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/access', `skip')dnl

> For some reason, I just can't get it to not pause when greeting external
> (non-localhost) connections. [...]
> if I test from another PC on our network, it connects, pauses for 5
> seconds, and then prints the SSL information.

Does your PC have an rDNS entry, and if not could this delay be a DNS
lookup timeout?

Chris