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Re: The Sendmail daemon of RedHat 4.0 is too slow



On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I've installed a RedHat 4.0 distribution on my computer (P166+16MB of RAM, but it really doesn't matter what machine it is). The distribution was configured to load the sendmail daemon when Linux was loaded. But I realized that it took it too long to complete its initialization that I had to remove it from there.
> 
> I might at a certain point will have to send email for myself, so I would like to be able to load it properly. I remember that when I installed an old distribution of Slackware (94 I think) it loaded in a flash even though my machine then was only a DX2/66 with 8 MB of RAM. Note that the computer I'm talking about is not connected to the internet via Ethernet or Frame Relay, but is usually off-line. I sometimes connect to the Internet using a SLIP connection to IBM.
> 
> Would you suggest:
> 1. Reconfiguring sendmail. (An appropraite config file would be appreciated)
> 2. Using smail instead.
> 3. Loading sendmail either with a & appended to its end or later on so I'll be able to do some other stuff while it loads.
> 4. Get the config file from RH 4.1 or Slackware 96? (I have both at home)

Hmm, I don't think delivering local mail requires sendmail to be running.

--Ariel

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
> 

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   | Ariel Biener                                            |
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