Re: Starting MTA: why does it take so long?
On Thursday 06 September 2007 21:27, Michael Dominok wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:13:02 +0200
>
> Chris <list.hurschler@gmx.de> wrote:
> > I have several desktop systems, and regadless of whether I leave exim4
> > unconfigured, or setup for local system use only, it takes quite a while
> > to start on boot.
>
> Googling for (parts of your) subject "Starting MTA takes long" would have
> taken you directly to
> http://datenroulette.de/blog/index.php?blog=4&title=starting_mta_takes_a_lo
>ng_time&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 which is only one of multriplillions of hi(n)ts
> you would have gotten if you had tried figuring it out yourself in the
> first place.
>
> > I don't really know what the MTA is supposed to do on a laptop or desktop
> > system, but I've read that it shouldn't be uninstallted. Is this really
> > the case?
>
> Yep. There're background jobs mailing "you" if something's going wrong or
> not. Without MTA you won't get this messages.
What kind of messages, more information than in the log files? It's a desktop
system, not some critical server.
Btw. you have my permission to ignore my future idiotic posts.
C
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C. Hurschler
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