I setup a new vps.net server.
I tried to send mail from PHP. It would not.
I installed sendmail apt-get install sendmail.
It now sends mail, but the server lags for about a minute before sending an email.
Not sure why this could be?
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I provided the log to community, and it made a quick look on my problem. – Andrejs Cainikovs Feb 10 '11 at 17:47
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Have a look at /var/log/mail.err and /var/log/mail.log for error output from sendmail, that might shed some light on the problem.
From your description though I'd hazard a guess that the server is stalling trying to resolve DNS - have you got nameservers correctly configured in /etc/resolv.conf?
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What exactly do I put inside the /etc/resolv.conf file? the IP of my server? or domain name? or dns nameserver? Thanks. – JD Isaacks Feb 10 '11 at 17:55
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I think this is the issue, the log says unable to qualify domain name. I do not know how to setup resolv.conf, I have a different question pending for that answer. – JD Isaacks Feb 10 '11 at 18:06
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@John: No, you needed to **fix DNS**. `/etc/hosts` is only a temporary workaround. – user1686 Feb 10 '11 at 19:44
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@grawity, I am so confused. I asked this question http://serverfault.com/questions/233995/ and thats what I was told. – JD Isaacks Feb 10 '11 at 20:13
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@John: Nevermind, then – I thought you were adding the addresses of _remote_ servers. – user1686 Feb 10 '11 at 20:23