Yesterday, Tom Rauschenbach gleaned this insight:
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> I've lived with the classic "sendmail hangs for 3 minutes at boot" for long
> enough. I've read the FAQs. I've searched the net. The problem is simple,
> I don't know several things my ISP won't tell me and I don't understand email
> well enough to figure this out myself. For example, the notion of "my domain".
> What's that ? My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] As far as I know my
> computer has a name "grumpers". But I'd bet breakfast that email to any address
> containing the string "grumpers" would bounce.
This is easy to fix. Shut sendmail off. You only need it if you're using
your system as an INCOMING mail server. If you're doing dial-up (last
time I checked tiac didn't do anything else unless you want T1+) then it's
almost certain that you aren't your own mail server. So just shut it off.
However, the problem is that sendmail can't find the IP address associated
with your host name. One way to solve this would be to create a dummy
interface and assign it a private address, i.e.
ifconfig dummy0 192.168.69.69 up
and then add an entry for your hostname to /etc/hosts � la
192.168.69.69 grumpers
I don't think any of the UI tools have a means of creating a dummy
interface that gets configured at every boot (but I could easily be
wrong since I virtually never use them)... So you'll probably have to put
this in rc.local or some such nonsense.
But you should just shut sendmail off... and you won't have to worry about
it. :)
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