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.

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  - Josh
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