Re: [cobalt-users] FormMail is SO slow.

["Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > Has anyone had problams running Formmail.  For me it takes almost 2
> min to
> > process.
>
> Two minutes sounds like a DNS timeout to me. Make sure you've configured
> your DNS correctly. Under normal circumstances Formmail.pl should run
> pretty much immediately.
>
Correct, sendmail attempts to resolve the domain name and finally timesout
and then sends the mail anyway.
You should see this behavior in the log files.
Since you are running a cgi on the server and using the servers mail, just
put an entry in /etc/hosts, and you will get real fast resolution!