Kuruvilla Chandy wrote:
> My problem is that everytime an email is sent from one of the clients
> (Win95) to the server to be queued and later sent to my ISP, the server
> pauses for about 2 mins before accepting the mail. My guess is that it is
> trying to resolve the address and decide where to send it. Obviously it is
> not able to do so. How do I stop this?
To configure sendmail for offline use:
1. Ensure that there isn't any `-q...' switch in the command which
starts the sendmail daemon (`sendmail -bd') in the init scripts.
2. Add the `m' flag to the `F=...' section of the SMTP mailer
definitions (Msmtp, Msmtp8, Mesmtp, Mrelay lines) in sendmail.cf, e.g.
Msmtp, P=[IPC], F=mDFMuXe, S=11/31, R=21, E=\r\n, L=990,
^
3. Enable the following options at the top of sendmail.cf:
# avoid connecting to "expensive" mailers on initial submission?
O HoldExpensive=True
...
# default delivery mode
O DeliveryMode=background
It may also help to comment out any lines which contain $[ ... $].
> Another question-- At home since my father prefers the simplicity of Win95
> (yechch) we use Eudora Light to handle our messages. Eudora Light has a
> facility to download mail using a shell account also, a simple script is
> needed to logon to the ISP to do this. I like this feature as our ISP's PPP
> connection is overloaded with traffic and we can get logged off from the
> connection at the drop of a hat. However the shell connection is quite
> reliable. My question is how can I configure fetchmail and sendmail to do
> the same in our Linux server?
Fetchmail doesn't provide an option to download mail using a shell
account.
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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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