Martin Marques wrote: > I'm having some issues regarding thunderbird sending mail. Basically it > hogs the CPU each time I try to send a mail trying to resolve the > address of the smtp server. So I configured my default smtp server to > localhost (I have a postfix server configured there for outgoing mail), > but thunderbird, strangely keeps having a hard time resolving it > (localhost is defined in /etc/hosts and /etc/host.conf has order > hosts,bind). > > I was wondering if thunderbird had the possibility of sending mail > through /usr/sbin/sendmail (or where ever it is). > > Other apps don't have any problems with dns resolving. You may be jumping the gun when you conclude it to be a dns issue. In any event, instead of putting in a host name for your SMTP server why don't you put in an IP address? Either put in the IP for you ethernet adapter or put in 127.0.0.1. As a matter of fact, try both for fun.
