By nmapsy
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
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Try checking your hosts file: sudo nano /etc/hosts
The first uncommented line will probably say this if you haven’t made any configuration changes: 127.0.0.1 localhost yourservername
After localhost, add in localhost.localdomain so you end up with 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain yourservername
This should do the trick
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