postfix: very long startup time (few minutes)

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

  for some reason the postfix thatkes a LONG time to startup (during 
boot). any ideas why? It seems like it's getting worse over time.

  this is on debian unstable.

  I don't have too many emails and I am not aware of any long queues 
waiting, this is on my personal workstation, I get few hundred emails a 
day (mostly mailing lists), send only few emails a day and normal 
operation of computer seems to be unaffected by email, the only problem 
is when the postfix service is started.

  I am not 100% sure it's postfix, at the time when it's started the 
system is not up yet. restarting postfix doesn't take too long - less 
than 1 second (/etc/init.d/postfix stop; /etc/init.d/postfix start). I 
think the problem is postfix because that's what it says on the screen 
but I guess at that time it might be something else (that's doesn't have 
output on the screen).

  any ideas?

  TIA!

	erik