On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:09:24PM +0200, 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 experiencing the same delay when booting with no network cable. Its a network timeout. Try disabling starting the network interface in /etc/network/interfaces and see if that kills the wait, or boot with a connected network. > 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. I think you need to configure exim for mail sent by smart host, no local mail delivery. > Please tell me how to do this, and also how to stop the very very long pause > (about 2 - 3 minutes) on Starting MTA. The timeout is probably 60 seconds and not 2-3 minutes. > .. > 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.? > > Thank you so much, > > Nachum Kanovsky > Software Developer > Mango DSP Ltd. > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Work: +972 2 588 5039 > Cell: +972 67 508 121 > > > ================================================================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] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > ================================================================= 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]
