Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-21 05:59, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes: >> >>> I don't know answers to all your questions but sometimes I have had >>> similar problems. I fixed the slow startup by answering "Yes" to the >>> debconf question >>> >>> Keep number of DNS-queries minimal (Dial-on-Demand)? >>> >>> Run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" as root. >> It worked like a charm. It now starts in less than one sec. This >> parameter should be set as a default setting, shouldn't it? >> > > The root cause has got to be that either > (a) the network isn't fully up yet, or > (b) there's some misconfiguration in /etc/hosts, /etc/mailcap, > /etc/exim4, ... where it's looking "out there" for something it can't > find. > I think that my network is set as fully up only a little bit later. That must be the problem, as the rest has already been checked thoroughly. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me.
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