Sendmail

[Opesh Alkara]

Sendmail will take excess of time to start itself , if it is not able to
determine its fully qualify domain name. Check to see if you have at least
something like this in your /etc/hosts, if not place it.

127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost



On 4/20/06, Greg Golin <greg.golin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Roger,
>
> You need to look at /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, not your resolv.conf. Read
> the top comments in the .mc file, merely changing it is not enough.
>
> Regards,
> G
>
> On 4/20/06, Roger <roger at mirasol.co.za> wrote:
> > I have tried changing the resolv.conf file to make sure that it points
> > to my IP Address, sendmail works but is rather slow, it takes 5 mins to
> > try and send a message.
> > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:16 -0400, dbrett at tcn.net wrote:
> > > Hi Roger
> > >
> > > Make sure sendmail is trying to configured to the domain which is in
> > > resolve.conf file.  If you didn't make any changes, add 127.0.0.1
> > > localhost
> > >
> > > david
> > >
> > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Roger wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hie all.
> > > >
> > > > I have a small problem. I am running FC3, whenever i start up my
> > > > machine, its hangs whenever its about to start sendmail, i removed
the
> > > > service from starting up automatically but then i am doing some
> > > > development which needs me to make use of sendmail, it just hangs my
> > > > machine whenever i try to start it.
> > > >
> > > > Help
> > > >
> > > > Roger.
> > > >
> > > > Web Applications Developer
> > > >
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Regards
Opesh Alkara