[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
The Sendmail daemon of RedHat 4.0 is too slow
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)
Thanks in advance,
Shlomi Fish
Follow-Ups: