sendmail

[Vincent]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:08:57 -0500
Jean Morissette <jean.morissette666 at videotron.ca> wrote:

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> Hi,
> When I boot Linux FC1, it take very long time to start sendmail (2-3
> minutes)!  I am a newbie so I don't know how to correct the problem.
> Could you help me please. I have a Athlon XP 2000+ and 512 meg RAM.
> Thanks
> Jean
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check your maillog in /var/log/ anything similar to this in there:
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Nov 17 04:02:43 Turtle sendmail[4717]: My unqualified host name (Turtle) unknown; sleeping for retry
Nov 17 04:03:07 Turtle sendmail[4501]: unable to qualify my own domain name (Turtle) -- using short name
Nov 17 04:03:07 Turtle sendmail[4501]: hAHC37RE004501: from=root, size=2273, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200311171203 hAHC37RE004501 Turtle>, relay=root localhostNov 17 04:03:07 Turtle sendmail[4501]: hAHHLS433: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=32273, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

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make sure of a few things, check /etc/sysconfig/network it should have
a line like this:
HOSTNAME=turtle.localdomain

check /etc/hosts for lines like this:
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
127.0.0.1       turtle.localdomain      turtle
Note the . in the hostnames, sendmail is picky about seeing a domain (aliases ok)
Also someone told me:
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost turtle.localdomain turtle
Is a better way to write it due to resolver code though, I've not had problems with my way yet, If you do you know what to try.

Check /etc/hosts.allow if you have tcpwrappers on
sendmail : 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain

By default RH configures sendmail to only accept connections from localhost
so any changing of things throws it for a loop.

good luck.
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