On Tue Sep 22 1998, Steve Sykes wrote:
> I am running RH 5.1. When fetchmail grabs the mail from my lan mail server
> it is quite slow. I seem to remember something about dns so I checked the
> resolv.conf file. If I just have my domain and nameserver address in the
> file, fetchmail grabs the mail quickly. If I add my internet domain server
> address and name fetchmail is slow. I am sure that it is trying to find the
> address of the ISP nameserver. I am sure that I have something incorrectly
> configured. My /etc/hosts file is straight out of the book. There is no
> /etc/networks file.
>
> Any ideas would be helpful.
Add the IP address and name of your mail server to /etc/hosts and see what
happens.
Cheers
Tony
