--- John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bob Kinney wrote:
> > --- John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Simon Slater wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> Just a question to satisfy my curiosity. When booting sendmail takes
> >>> a very long time to start. This happens in FC6 but even longer in F7 on
> >>> a new laptop. I'm watching it now and its been 7 minutes so far. Done!
> >>> Sendmail finished in 9 minutes and now sm-client ... is ... finished
> >>> in ... 4 minutes. The rest boots quite quickly, less than 2 minutes for
> >>> everything else. All mail is done through another box. This is not a
> >>> problem, allows plenty of time to make some tea and get a slice of cake.
> >>>
> >> If you ever get tired of the opportunity to have morning tea and a
> >> natter while the computer gets started, you might get around to checking
> >> that networking is starting properly, you have fully functioning DNS or
> >> an alternative.
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> John
> >
> > I have had that problem, too. It seems that sendmail requires a complete
> > hostname (with a domain) and sort of sits on its hands for a long time
> > before timing out and continuing.
> >
> > So in my case, I named the computer "name.localdomain", and updated the
> entry
> > in /etc/hosts for my machine to
> > 127.0.0.1 name.localdomain name localhost.localdomain localhost
> > where the last 3 items are aliases and thus will work for probably any
> > program's needs.
>
> except sending mail to other (especially remote) that expect the sender
> to comply with appropriate RFCs. If, on connecting to your sendmail
> using telnet, it announces itself as "localhost" then it's broken.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Cheers
> John
>
[bob@otis ~]$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 otis.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.1/8.14.1; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:51:51
-0600
HELO
501 5.0.0 HELO requires domain address
The point is understood if you are running a public mail service, but I
don't think mine's "broken."
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