Re: change of smtp server settings in SQmail makes it very slow

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Thanks Paul for ur immediate reply
i try the things as suggested by you

i do apprecite

regards

simon


>> I have the following setup which had been working for a quite long  time
>> all the below are running on one server
>> Centos Os 5
>> Sendmail 8.13
>> apache
>> MailScanner 4.77
>> mailwatch
>> Squirrel mail 1.4.13
>
> This is old with several known security holes.  You need to upgrade.
>
>> now soemtime back i upgraded my squirrel mail to 1.4.17 and everything
>> working fine.
>
> Still too old with known security holes.
>
>> but I did notice that all emails ( with or without attachments) sent
>> from
>> SQmail web interface were being whitelisted as seen from mailwatch
>> interface.
>
> We don't support SqWebMail.  You'll need to go here for that:
>
> http://www.courier-mta.org/sqwebmail/
>
>> this happens since localhost (127.0.0.1 ) is being whitelisted.
>>
>> Actually i found that when in upgrade of SQ mail the  Server
>> Settings==>General==>Sendmail or SMTP was sendmail
>>
>> so i changed the setting to SMTP and specified the IP address of  my
>> mailserver which is the same machine itself
>>
>> Now after I did that emails sent from the SQmail Web interface are not
>> whitelisted and attachments do get blocked which is perfect and what i
>> want
>>
>> but the problem is that any email ( with or without attachment ) takes
>> very very long time over two or three after clicking on the send icon
>> for
>> the page to refresh
>
> So consult your SMTP logs.  If sendmail is fast, then the problem
> probably isn't anything to do with SquirrelMail.
>
>> But if the conf.pl setting is changed to sendmail instead of SMTP it
>> goes
>> within a 2 or 3 seconds
>
> So go look at why your SMTP server is so slow.
>
>> When I had Squirrel mail 1.4.13 the setting was SMTP in conf.pl and it
>> was
>> working fine
>>
>> I did try changing the setting of SMTP from IP address to hostname or
>> fully domain name but problem persists
>>
>> also i tail the maillog and see that the log of the sent message takes a
>> very long time to appear
>
> Can you install 1.4.13 and 1.4.19 on the same machine at the same
> time, using the same configuration file?  If you can and 1.4.13 is
> still faster, THEN you can start to figure out what changed.
> Otherwise, I don't think it's a SquirrelMail problem.
>
>> apprecite your kind advice and suggestions as to what could be wrong
>
> --
> Paul Lesniewski
> SquirrelMail Team
> Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail!
> http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----
> squirrelmail-users mailing list
> Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines
> List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user
> List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options):
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
>
> --
> This message has been scanned for viruses and
> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> believed to be clean.
>


-- 
Network ADMIN
-------------
KUWAIT MUNICIPALITY:

-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.


------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----
squirrelmail-users mailing list
Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines
List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user
List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users

[Index of Archives]     [Video For Linux]     [Yosemite News]     [Yosemite Photos]     [gtk]     [KDE]     [Cyrus SASL]     [Gimp on Windows]     [Steve's Art]     [Webcams]

  Powered by Linux