On Wed, 19 May 2004, Nachum Kanovsky wrote: > Hi all, > > I am working with debian unstable, and when I boot the system, I will > sometimes get a very long wait on 'Staring MTA:'. > I am working with exim4. > The only thing I want to configure exim4 to do is to send mail using an > external smtp server. I receive mail from an external pop server, and that > works fine. > Please tell me how to do this, and also how to stop the very very long pause > (about 2 - 3 minutes) on Starting MTA. > .. > Truth is that I think I have already done this, and I used the mail sent by > smarthost with no local mail. I also set the parameter for machine handling > outgoing mail to the smtp server that I want, and mail does get sent, so > perhaps that was correct. > But I still can't figure out the real long pause when starting the mta. > .. > I also have my hostname, and localhost in my /etc/hosts file as 127.0.0.1.?
Hi Nachum, It sounds like you have a DNS problem. Can you give us more details, like your exim.conf. -- - Josh GPG: F5A7 6196 13B5 270F B578 221F 80D1 99C8 4AC6 8C29 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
