Jason Dunsmore wrote:
> why does emacs stall (for ~1 min) upon startup when the network is
> down and how can it be prevented?  i've tried compiling it without
MTA
> support to no avail.
>
> thanks.

It's hard to say what's going on with your system but on mine
this happens because recentf is trying to verify its file list
and that takes a long time when the network is down.

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