At 10:57 Uhr -0500 4.4.2003, chris wrote:
>>Has anyone ever used MIT's cgiemail CGI with Apache?
>>
>>I've got it set up and running on a Q610, but it seems to be VERY slow.
>>There is a good 30 seconds lag between when you click the submit button
>>and when the page changes to the success page. The email is being sent
>>properly, its just very slow.
>
>I think I have narrowed it down to a SendMail issue. I tried using the
>cgiecho portion of the CGI, and it processes instantly. From what I can
>find out, cgiecho does everything cgiemail does exept send the email. So
>that kind of makes it lean to a SendMail problem.
>
>Anyone know if cgiemail waits until SendMail has sent the email before
>completing? Or does anyone use SendMail on a Q610 and know if it is
>normally slow?

Sounds like a DNS related problem... Are you on a permenent internet
connection, or dialup? If the latter, it takes some work to have sendmail
queue incoming mail and not perform any DNS inquiries on the addresses in
the headers.

	hauke

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