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.
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