Resent-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 09:42:53 -0500 (EST)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 12:56:52 +0100
Message-Id: <199712031156.MAA00524@mail.a2points.com>
From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>
To: rfunk@peri.acs.ohio-state.edu (Rob Funk)
Cc: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond), fetchmail-friends@ccil.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: new fetch behaviour
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Rob Funk writes:
 > Eric S. Raymond wrote:
 > >Rob Funk <rfunk@peri.acs.ohio-state.edu>:
 > >> My guess is that sendmail is trying to do a hostname lookup when it
 > >> starts up, and your resolver configuration is causing that to fail and
 > >> timeout.  That's always been what I've seen when sendmail has slow
 > >> starts.  Check nsswitch.conf and resolv.conf, and your hosts file.
 > >> Make sure your hostname and FQDN are both in hosts, and that hosts is
 > >> looked at before DNS.  You probably also want your remote mail server
 > >> to be in the hosts file.
 > >
 > >This sounds like advice I want to put in the FAQ.  But I'm not sure I
 > >have your scenario quite right.  By "when it starts up" do you
 > >actually mean "when it gets a HELO message?"
 > 
 > I was talking about when the sendmail program first starts, before
 > getting a connection.  I normally see this sort of behavior either
 > when the sendmail daemon starts at bootup, or when some user program
 > invokes the sendmail program to send a message.

That seems to be a problem I had some time ago, when first installing
sendmail; Now it works fine in this respect. I attach my sendmail.mc,
it might help you. I guess the "FEATURE(nodns)" may be what you miss.

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VERSIONID(`@(#)sendmail.mc	8.7 (Linux) 3/5/96')
OSTYPE(debian)dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl
FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl
FEATURE(nouucp)dnl
FEATURE(nodns)dnl
GENERICS_DOMAIN(bylbo.nowhere.earth)dnl
FEATURE(genericstable, `hash -N /etc/mail/genericstable')dnl
FEATURE(smrsh, `/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl
define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `10h')dnl
define(`confTO_QUEUERETURN', `10d')dnl
define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE', `True')dnl
define(`SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS', `e')dnl
FEATURE(local_procmail)dnl
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
Cwbylbo.nowhere.earth

## Custom configurations below (will be preserved)

dnl we have to set a valid name for some severs to accept connexion
dnl
define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`mail.a2points.com')dnl

dnl Talk 8bit with everyone
dnl
define(`confSMTP_MAILER',`smtp8')dnl

dnl Tell them hom to decode our 8bit
dnl
define(`confDEF_CHAR_SET', `ISO-8859-1')dnl

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