Re: [solved] Starting MTA:

[Klaus Jantzen <k.d.jantzen@t-online.de>]

On 09/18/2009 02:07 PM, ludovico van wrote:
> > Agreed.  Cron and anacron both need a mailer to inform you of errors and
> > various packages install cron jobs implicitly.
> >
> > However, isn't there a local-only mailer that respects /etc/aliases and is
> > lighter-weight than exim4?
> >     
>
> what i do on my computers is putting
> QUEUERUNNER='nodaemon'
> in /etc/default/exim4
>
> this way no exim daemon is started at all, but i still can get my
> mails from anacron.
>
> Bye
>
>
>   
In addition to changing the configuration of exim4 as suggested by 
Florian I also changed the above mentioned option
and now booting is fast and I have not encountered any problems (so far).

Thanks.

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