Do you have a fully qualified domain name setup? That is a major cause for
sendmail
hanging on dialup accounts. Your /etc/hosts file should look something like
this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
x.x.x.x host.domain.com host
Where x.x.x.x is your ip address or a guess of what it might be if you have a
dynamic ip on dialup.
/etc/hosname should only contain the host entry not the entire host.domain.com
entry.
For further help with sendmail on a dialup take a look at the
Sendmail-Adress-rewrite howto.
Doug
>> I'm using Potato with the latest sendmail. Everything works except for one
>> annoyance: when the daemon is first ran, and anytime anyone sends mail, it
>> takes an extremely long time. This is a dial-up machine, so it doesn't have
>> it's own actual domain. A long time ago, I had configured sendmail, using
>> sendmailconfig, so that it worked just fine without these extremely long
>> pauses or spawning of extra sendmail processes just to send mail.
>>
>> Any suggestions for the best way to configure sendmail for a dial-up box?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Randal
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