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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
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
Actually I needed to add the domains to the /etc/hosts file. – JD Isaacks Feb 10 '11 at 18:44
@John: No, you needed to fix DNS. /etc/hosts is only a temporary workaround. – grawity Feb 10 '11 at 19:44
@grawity, I am so confused. I asked this question serverfault.com/questions/233995 and thats what I was told. – JD Isaacks Feb 10 '11 at 20:13
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