> > setting it to another machine through ethernet goes at normal speed.
> >
> > what's wrong in localhost that it's slower than real one
>
> Maybe that machine is faster and its sendmail can write data faster to
> queue dir ?
> Try to send mail over ethernet from another machine to this machine
> and look at speed and usage of hdd.
yes i tried. forks up to 5 times FASTER than from localhost.
no joke