Can someone please tell me how to fix this?

Originally posted by iamdave
Can someone please tell me how to fix this?

That's not anywhere near enough information to help you. What type of problems are you having sending mail, what do your log files say, what type of error messages are you seeing, and most importantly, are you sure sendmail is running?

Are people unable to send email to your server after you updated sendmail by up2date? If so...

If you do a netstat -an, does it show:
tcp 0 127.0.0.10:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

If so,

Edit:
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc

Comment out the line that starts with:
DAEMON_OPTIONS
By adding dnl before it

Rebuilb the sendmail.cf:
m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf

Restart sendmail

Your netstat -an should now show
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

Its not that I cant send mail its that mail takes forever...a friggin 10 k email takes at least 45 seconds to send. I'm on DSL...no firewall, no antivirus.

netstat -an

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN


I am by the way using plesk.

Plesk uses qmail.

ANy suggestions...?

My guess would be that qmail is trying to do a reverse lookup on your IP address, failing after 30 seconds or so, then sending the e-mail.

The best way to resolve that is to tell qmail not to do a reverse lookup on IP Addresses.

Could you tell me how to do this?

Originally posted by iamdave
Could you tell me how to do this?

No, I don't know anything about qmail.

Try doing a search on Google for "qmail reverse lookup" you wil lprobably find an answer there.

Anyone know how to tell qmail not to do a reverse lookup on IP Addresses?

Qmail doesn't do "reverse lookups" as far as I know.

It's probably the program calling qmail that is doing it.

To disable "reverse lookups" with tcpserver, add a "-H" to it's parameters.

I have no idea where you'll find this on plesk.

In fact, last I remember, plesk was starting qmail with inetd.

You might check the plesk forum at www.plesk.com