Title: Slow Email Send
Last modified: February 16, 2017

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# Slow Email Send

 *  Resolved [willrich33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willrich33/)
 * (@willrich33)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-email-send/)
 * My email send time is nearly 30 seconds. Any ideas why? Here is snippet from 
   the log.
 * 2017-02-16 04:55:35 CLIENT -> SERVER: This is a test email generated by the WP
   Mail SMTP WordPress plugin.
    2017-02-16 04:55:35 CLIENT -> SERVER: 2017-02-16
   04:55:35 CLIENT -> SERVER: . 2017-02-16 04:56:04 SMTP -> get_lines(): $data is“”
   2017-02-16 04:56:04 SMTP -> get_lines(): $str is “250 OK id=1ceE6R-0003m7-OO ”
   2017-02-16 04:56:04 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250 OK id=1ceE6R-0003m7-OO

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 *  Thread Starter [willrich33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willrich33/)
 * (@willrich33)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-email-send/#post-8810906)
 * Got it, it was a WHM Apache spam filter.
 *  [lordwhizy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lordwhizy/)
 * (@lordwhizy)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-email-send/#post-8919473)
 * HI, [@willrich33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willrich33/)
 * I am having the same issue, can you please advise on how you fixed this and where
   can i find the kind of log you posted above.
 * Cheers..
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by [lordwhizy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lordwhizy/).
 *  Thread Starter [willrich33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willrich33/)
 * (@willrich33)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-email-send/#post-8919512)
 * lordwhizzy:
 * If you are on shared linux hosting there is probably little you can do, besides
   asking your ISP. Outgoing spam filters are usually kept on.
 * If you are on VPS then go to WHM as root and search for “exim”
 * Exim Configuration Manager > Apache SpamAssassin™ Options > Scan outgoing messages
   for spam and reject based on the Apache SpamAssassin™ internal spam_score setting
 * Will disable or enable it…at least that’s what I remember.
 * willrich33
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by [willrich33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willrich33/).

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