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RE: The Sendmail daemon of RedHat 4.0 is too slow
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> You wrote
> > I might at a certain point will have to send email for myself, so I
> > would like to be able to load it properly.
>
> AFAIK, the sendmail doesn't need to be running in daemon-mode in order to
> send mail, you need it to receive. Does sendmail run slowly in general?
>
> Of course I can send mail if sendmail is not running as a daemon with sendmail, pine, mail or whatever. The problem is that when I want to send mail to shlomi@localhost, I need to have sendmail running in order to receive the incoming mail. (that what I meant by saying sending email for myself.)
>
> As far as I noticed sendmail is not slow once it finished loading, but I'm not too sure about that.
>
> Shlomi Fish
You can solve this problem quite simply by putting sendmail in background
(adding "&" to the end of the line it is invoked on) and letting it take
it's own time to timeout while your boot sequence progresses. Or just
comment the line out if you aren't networking.
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