Linux Qmail - slow response

[rafcarter]

Plesk 7.5.3 on Linux fedora core2
2.4 ghz Celeron 256 Mb ram hosting 3 domain atm.
psa-qmail 1.03-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-qmail-rblsmtpd 0.70-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-proftpd 1.2.10-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-logrotate 3.7-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-spamassassin 7.5.3-fc2.build75050506.13

Using Outlook send/receive with POP/SMTP I'm getting very slow response for sending emails. I receive emails very fast but when sending emails, the email sits in outbox for 35 seconds and then gets sent. Has anyone had this problem ?

I was using FreeBSD before and VDeck and emails were flying.

When I test the connection, in everything completes but the "send test email message". It comes up as The specified server was found, but there was no response from the server. Please verify that the port and SSL information is correct. To access these settings close this dialog, then click More Settings and click on the advanced tab.

This is happening with all the domain acounts that I'm using for each domain. I tried the following options in Outlook.

My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication...checked

Use same settings as my incomming mail server...checked

I also tried checking off log on using and put username and password again.

Also I tried just checking Log on to incomming mail server before sending mail.

All these options produce same result.

In plesk its set for Relaying - authorization is required and SMTP is checked. Are these settings correct ?

Anyone know what I can try doing in Plesk to make email send faster ?

 

[poke]

turn off the reverse dns lookup in your smtp_psa and smtps_psa

-Rt0

 

[rafcarter]

Thanks, worked great.

 

[poke]

no problem

 

[resellertr]

How can I disable on freebsd?

 

[jackjoe]

what does "reverse DNS lookup" on qmail smtp do?

 

[ShadowMan@]

Some SMTP hosts do a reverse Domain Name Service (DNS) lookup for security reasons when an SMTP connection is established. If this reverse lookup fails to resolve properly, they will possibly drop the connection. By default Qmail does not drop a connection on rDNS lookup failure.

Basically it does a reverse lookup to try and verify that the IP address points back to the valid domain which supposedly sent the message.

Many ISPs don't have their rDNS setup properly for each individual client, so since the timeout on the lookup defaults to 30 seconds, it causes a 30 second delay in sending each message from a client workstation.

Adding the -Rt0 option to the smtp_psa file eliminates this delay time by telling the smtp to not do reverse lookups.

 

[DiScDuCe]

Some might say this is a bandaid to a larger issue. It seems to me that there are other mailservers (not qmail) out there that can successfully execute are reverse DNS lookup and still connect to Outlook mail clients in a timely manner.

I too had the same issue and was forced to configure the -Rt0 "fix" but I feel that I may have been robbed of some security in the mean time.

 

[PedstersPlanet]

Where do I put this -Rt0, before the last } (brace)?

 

[DiScDuCe]

Rt0 is the first thing in the server_args.... like this:

server_args = -Rt0 /usr/sbin/rblsmtpd

make sure you make the same change to your smtps_psa file as well for your SSL based connections.

 

[PedstersPlanet]

Thanks.. I shouldve known that lol
Now it's fast..... Cheers