Re: [cobalt-users] Universal CGI-BIN

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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Fathi Said wrote:

> > Its a strange one.  While other cgi programs run at normal speed
> formmail.pl
> > takes a long time to run... I think the problem is with his isp as we
> can't
> > seem to get the rest of the world to resolve his ip numbers.  So I think
> > sendmail is the cause of the delay.  any thoughts?
> 
> Not necessarily.
> 
> I have this happening here on 4 RaQ2s.....
> Formmail takes about 2 minutes to process a simple request (=send the email
> and forward to the thank you page). The strange thing this only happens on a
> few RaQs and on those RaQs, it only happens to a few virtual sites. Like on
> the same server you have 100 virtual sites, for 50 it processes as it should
> very fast, and for the others it takes almost two minutes.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?

I think this one could be a problem with the ISP. I have noticed
that if the recipient address has problems (eg non-existant email address
or a recipient mailserver that is slow to respond) formmail takes a long
time to process, whereas if the email address is OK it will process
quickly.

Regards,

Roger Harrison