Re: Slow 'sendmail -q'

[<frleg@infonie.fr>]

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>> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:10:25 +0000
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>> On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 04:04:02PM +0100, frleg@infonie.fr wrote:
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>> > When I am conneted to my ISP, doing the command 'sendmail -q' take a lot of time (20 or 30 
>> > seconds), even if there is no mails to send. Is it normal ?
>> 
>> > Another slow thing : when fetchmail is retrieving mails from my ISP, it is very slow. Does it come 
>> > from my ISP or from my computer ? Is there anyway to know it ?
>> 
>> Both of these can be caused by sendmail attempting to resolve the name
>> of the local machine.  Does your machine have an entry in /etc/hosts
>> and/or a local name server?

My /etc/hosts is :

127.0.0.1       loopback localhost
0.0.0.0         albert  

I don't know if I have a local name server. Maybe it is 'albert' but I am not sure. How can I verify it ?

Thanks
Franck



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