Andrew Taylor wrote:
> I've got a couple of linux boxes and I use fetchmail to get my mail from
> the server, this works great but the workstation insists on hitting the
> DNS on every download. As I'm on a dial-up line this gets a bit expensive.
> Is there anyway I can turn it off?
It depends upon what's performing the DNS lookup. If fetchmail is
passing the message to sendmail, there are a number of things that can
be done to reduce the number of DNS lookups. Specifically, disabling
any features which result in any of the following map types will help:
$[ ... $]
$(host ... $)
$(resolve ... $)
$(mxserved ... $)
$(bestmx ... $)
You can find which lines correspond to which features by looking at
the cf/m4/proto.m4 file.
Also if you are on a dial-up line, you should look into running a
caching DNS server at your end of it.
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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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