Koozali.org: home of the SME Server

Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: cb-wizard on December 14, 2004, 04:06:40 PM

Title: Sending email from Outlook Express/Mozilla slow to sme
Post by: cb-wizard on December 14, 2004, 04:06:40 PM

Hi All,

2 x sites I have the same problem sending email the email sits for a long time in the outbox before it is accepted by the server. v6.0.1 at all my sites.

What do I need to do?


Thanks

cb

Title: Sending email from Outlook Express/Mozilla slow to sme
Post by: Olsen on December 14, 2004, 05:02:14 PM

You do have your send and receive settings set to send emails immediately...right?

I have set up a couple SME servers and never had a problem with emails.

You can test whether it is accually an Outlook problem, or if the SMTP server is running slow.  Go to www.yourserver.com/webmail

login and send a message using webmail.  If it sends immediately, you can assume that it is likely an outlook issue or a send and receive setting that needs to be updated.

Title: Sending email from Outlook Express/Mozilla slow to sme
Post by: RayG on December 14, 2004, 08:09:31 PM

I experience similar delays on two SME boxes with SPamAssassin and ClamAV installed. A third box running Bitdeffender does not have a send delay. I've largely ignored the issue as one box only gets mail sent through it via Exchange and the other gets a low email volume.

If your running SpamAssassin and ClamAV, try disabling the outgoing mail scan and see if that speeds things up.

Title: Sending email from Outlook Express/Mozilla slow to sme
Post by: cb-wizard on December 15, 2004, 06:45:08 AM

Manual send and receive email, no action for a while.  Running ClamAV at all my sites with similar setups.

It nearly seems as if sme is waiting to validate or something before it is accepting email for sending either internally or outside.  Receiving is very quick no problem.  The one site is a very low volume site with only a couple of users.

Title: Sending email from Outlook Express/Mozilla slow to sme
Post by: mbachmann on December 15, 2004, 04:12:23 PM

I've seen this slow sending behaviour if two or more RBL s are enabled.

Title: Sending email from Outlook Express/Mozilla slow to sme
Post by: cb-wizard on December 17, 2004, 07:23:59 AM

I am not scanning for virus on outgoing email, even stopping ClamAV makes no difference.

Title: Sending email from Outlook Express/Mozilla slow to sme
Post by: mbachmann on December 17, 2004, 10:36:25 AM

The RBLs are part of Spamassassin.

Title: Sending email from Outlook Express/Mozilla slow to sme
Post by: shanen on December 17, 2004, 11:45:24 PM

After tuning off "scan outgoing e-mail" I noticed a huge difference in sending from thunderbird using IMAP.

Thanks heaps

Shane

Title: Sending email from Outlook Express/Mozilla slow to sme
Post by: cb-wizard on December 20, 2004, 02:01:11 PM

I had no RBL entry, added entry, stopped Spam Filter, stopped ClamAV - tried above combinations, still email slow to server from workstations.  Collecting not affected.

Title: Any solution yet?
Post by: FlyBRo on March 14, 2005, 10:29:38 AM

Hi,

Has anybody found a solution to this yet? I have the same problem and messages "get stuck" in the outbox if you try to send a few messages at a time. Emails sit in the outbox for at least 30 seconds before being sent out.

Any ideas?

Title: Sending email from Outlook Express/Mozilla slow to sme
Post by: cb-wizard on March 14, 2005, 03:09:38 PM

Hi,

I upgraded my anti-virus to the latest as per Swerts-Knudsen:

http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/index.html?frame=http%3A//sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/howtos/howto_22.htm

and all my problems was resolved.

Chris

Title: Sending email from Outlook Express/Mozilla slow to sme
Post by: mbachmann on March 14, 2005, 03:15:24 PM

30 secs is not much. Maybe the ISPs SMTP Mailserver is the reason why it's slow. Spamassassin takes it's time to scan outgoing msgs too, sometimes 20-30 secs. maillog and current log in /var/log/qmail could give some hints.

Title: Sending email from Outlook Express/Mozilla slow to sme
Post by: gbentley on May 23, 2005, 07:59:27 PM

After my client replacing some win98 machines with XPP Lookout Excuse is now going very slowly. It was almost instant sending to the SME (its on dialup) using 98.

Is there some registry magic needed ?

I notice that pings times are low and web browsing
works ok (for dialup)

Any suggestions appreciated as I have to go back tomorrow :)

btw - Dont know if this should make any diff, the new machines have Gigabyte Ethernet cards but the hub is only 10 Mb. Copying files to the network drive is fine as are pings.

Plz hlp !

Title: SMTP - Make it FAST!
Post by: nate on November 28, 2006, 11:00:16 PM

What about setting SMTP to send directly from the client machine?
 
I had outgoing mail slow setup like this:

pop: mail.myserver.com
smtp: mail.myserver.com
 
So I did this:
 
pop: mail.myserver.com
smtp: 192.168.0.1
 
Of course you need to have SMTP services on the local workstation.
 
Anyway if you are running an SME server with WinXP clients it works like a charm.  Outgoing mail is zippY!!!
 
HTH