On 16 May 1998 17:10:16 -0500, Stefan Ulrich Hegner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi there,
>I successfully got my diald running on my local net router to provide
>a number of clients with on-demand internet access. However, I encountered
>a nasty problem:
>
>Everytime sendmail is called (be it by an smtp transfer or even for
>distributing local mail) diald connects me to my provider. However,
>I'd rather have it to connect only for set times for mail sending.
>Is there a way to implement that?
>
>I got diald 0.16, ppp 2.2.0 and kernel 2.0.30 running.
>
Sendmail loves dns; it's ALWAYS doing host lookups, even when it doesn't
really need to.
I've only found 2 solutions ot this problem:
1) Set up sendmail to queue all incoming mail. Then run "sendmail -q"
periodically.
2) Run named and set up your own local domain. If done right, sendmail
will not bring up the link for delivering local mail, but will for outoging
mail. You can then configure your smtp mailer as expensive, and then
sendmail should queue outgoing mail but deliver local mail immediately.
-- Phelix
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