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It takes ~60 seconds to send a single email

Posted on February 14, 2014

I have a WordPress droplet and everytime PHP sends an email, it takes about 60 seconds to load the page.

For example, when you click “Send” on the contact form, it takes a whole minute for the “Sent Successfully” message to show up.

When running “ps wwaux | egrep “postfix|mail|exim””, i get: ps wwaux | egrep “postfix|mail|exim” root 886 0.0 0.2 102176 2668 ? Ss Jan22 1:27 sendmail: MTA: accepting connections root 15032 0.0 0.0 9392 896 pts/0 S+ 17:17 0:00 egrep --color=a uto postfix|mail|exim



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