On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
> When I send email using pine, the message instead of putting immediately in
The problem is that clients like pine and mutt do not use smtp to send
mail. Instead they write directly to sendmail, creating a new sendmail
process (rather than a thread of the sendmail daemon) for each mail to be
sent.
This new process does not look at the sendmail.cf file, but takes all
parameters from the command line.
> the mq it looks up for dns resolution delaying the sending process sometimes
> by few minutes when the internet connection is not live. I have already set
> nodns, and also using service.switch file. Still I am not able to solve the
The problem is definitely a dns lookup failure and the delay is because
sendmail is looking for dns. It only queues it when it is sure that there
is no dns available.
> problem. This problem doesn't arise when I am using the simple `mail'
Not sure why it doesn't happen with mail. Maybe mail doesn't use
sendmail.
> program. What else am I missing? I have also set background sending in pine.
> No success. Ideas/clues are welcome.
Can't think of anything else that may be the problem.
What you can do is this:
Set your own machine as the first dns server. Your real dns server will
be the secondary dns. It works in some cases.
Philip
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