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.
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