Gerard Seibert wrote:
Daniel Bye wrote:
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 07:28:06PM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote:
It turns out it was sendmail causing the delay, so now my /etc/rc.comf
reads:
sendmail_enable="NONE"
This is fine, but according to rc.sendmail(8) `NONE' is deprecated and
will be removed in a future release (but, to be honest, it's been going
to be removed in a future release for quite some time now... ;-). It's
more typing, but the preferred way to disable sendmail these days is
this:
sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
This prevents any of the various sendmail daemons from starting.
In that case, what handles the delivery of mail locally?
At the moment I have the slightly perverse, but workable, situation
whereby we send internal mail via the internet - it all goes through my
hosting company's SMTP servers. In these days of always-on conections it
is not as stupid as it sounds, and they offer such a good service that
before I get to grips with FreeBSD myself, it suits me very well. (BTW
they use FreeBSD, and deserve any bigging-up going: www.gradwell.com)
...it does not cure the problem for me if I decide that I do want
sendmail! I could cross that bridge when I come to it, but I would
prefer to gain some insight here if anyone can bear any more on this topic.
I would suggest you look at ssmtp in the ports. It is a very simple
mail forwarding daemon, that you configure with the IP address of another,
full MTA to which ssmtp will send all your outgoing messages. Your ISP
probably runs a suitable server for their customers' use. It means you
won't have to worry about your IP address and DNS resolution and all the
other things that go with running a full MTA, like sendmail, exim or
postfix.
Adding
127.0.0.1 frankbruno
to /etc/hosts did not cure the problem. Could that be because the lookup
that causes the delay is a reverse one? If so, it would be trying to
find a name for 192.168.0.4 (I think that's the one I have been getting
recently) which is still not in hosts.
No, it wouldn't help at all - you should return that entry to localhost.
I would rather not mess with the IP allocation if possible - having it
automatic is much more useful and means I cannot create condradictory
records in different places.
Fair enough. KDK's suggestion of using a wrapper script will certainly
get you round this if you decide you need/want to use a more full-
featured MTA.
Dan
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Daniel Bye
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