Question
Should sending email via sendmail result in a long wait?
In my previous hosting setup I used the sendmail command to send email when I needed to notify myself about system occurrences.
But I’ve been trying it out in DigitalOcean, and it consistently takes almost exactly 1 minute to execute.
Is this expected? Maybe an intentional rate-limiting measure? That would be fine, but it causes certain actions on my site to time out. I could execute the command in the background, but I’d like the exit status to tell the user if there was a problem (e.g. if they’re using a “contact admin” form).
So: what’s going on, and is there a way to mitigate it?
Platform:
Ubuntu 12.04.5 32-bit
kernel 3.2.0-24-virtual
ip 198.211.116.82
sendmail 8.14.4
These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.
DO doesn’t rate limit or lag email (as far as I can tell). I’m not sure that
SendMailis a blocking task. Outgoing email should be placed in/var/spool/mailand be send by a daemon process. So ifsendmailis blocking for 1 minute then I’d say you have something wrongly configured, but maybe you are referring to delivery time taking 1 minute. Which would be related to your email server and not the droplet.