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@@ -14,13 +14,16 @@ Q. I'm getting really terrible performance for outgoing messages. It
seems that if the MTA has trouble resolving DNS for any recipients,
qrunner just gets really slow clearing the queue. Any ideas?
-A. What's likely happening is that your MTA is doing DNS resolution
- for messages delivered locally (i.e. from Mailman to your MTA via
- SMTPDirect.py). This is a Bad Thing. You need to turn off
- synchronous DNS resolution for messages originating from the local
- host. See the README.YOURMTA file to see if there's specific
- instructions on how to fix this for your MTA, or check your MTA's
- documentation.
+A. What's likely happening is that your MTA is doing DNS resolution on
+ recipients for messages delivered locally (i.e. from Mailman to
+ your MTA via SMTPDirect.py). This is a Bad Thing. You need to
+ turn off synchronous DNS resolution for messages originating from
+ the local host.
+
+ In Exim, the value to edit is receiver_verify_hosts. See
+ README.EXIM for details. Other MTAs have (of course) different
+ parameters and defaults that control this. First check the README
+ file for your MTA and then consult your MTA's own documentation.
Q. What if I get "document contains no data" from the web server, or
mail isn't getting delivered, or I see "Premature end of script