mail() sending slowly

[Niclov]

Hi, not sure whether this is a PHP problem or a mail server problem, but when I use the mail() function to send email messages the browser viewing the page appears almost to stall (though you can see the status bar at the bottom move extremely slowly) until the message is sent. This is taking about four minutes for just one message! The server with sendmail on it doesn't seem to be taxxed by the message, the CPU and memory usages stay almost constant through the entire process. Any idea why it's taking so long to send?

I'm using Caldera Openlinux 2.2 (2.2.14 kernal)
PHP 4.0.5
Sendmail 8.9.3
on a P-133 with 64MB of RAM

Any ideas would be much appreciated

 

[mcvdmvs]

how's ure mem usage? and what connection to the internet u have and isnt ure mailmessage too long and do u make an endless loop somewhere? mcvdmvs
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[Niclov]

Mem usages goes up from 56M used to 57M, that's with 63M total. My Internet connection is DSL speed, and though my message is rather long, short ones have a delay as well, not as long though. I'm pretty sure it's not an endless loop, since there isn't one contained in the mailing portion of the script, which is the only section with problems.

-Nick