Sendmail required?

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman]

Steve Berry wrote:

>I noticed severe lag time in sendmail at boot. so I disabled it. 
>  
>
Long load time for sendmail often means that host resolution is not 
working properly on your box.  Sendmail wants to know the fully 
qualified name and address of your system, which generally means:

(a) HOSTNAME in /etc/sysconfig/network is fully qualified, and
(b) There is a corresponding entry in /etc/hosts.

There are other ways to resolve this problem, but this is usually the 
simplest.

-- lars