Re: Boot hang at "Starting: MTA"
On Monday 20 June 2005 22:42, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
wrote:
> Now that I'm home I
> notice that when booting the system hangs for approximately 60 seconds at
> "Starting: MTA."
>
> I'm pretty green with Linux, but I'm guessing that the mail transfer agent
> is looking for a mail source (network) that is no longer connected. Is that
> correct? Whatever the problem, what do I do to fix the situation?
Mine also does this. I am not sure for what it is waiting/polling/testing but
after that minute or so, the thing plays 100%
What MTA are you using? I am using Exim4 with the "heavy" daemon. Fetchmail
retrieves pop mail from provider and the Exim "smarthosts" sending mail
through the provider's host. Procmail is being used to spam and virus check.
In the end, KDE's KMail gets the mail from user mail folders and sends
messages written to localhost where Exim does the rest.
You might get along with something much simpler and quicker. Kmail can do ALL
of this (but beware of its spam and virus checking which bog down the main
program thread rather than run in the background). Other mailers can do it
all as well if you do not like Kmail.
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