lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > what might be the reason for exim4 taking ages (i. e. minutes) to > start when booting? The boot process keeps waiting until exim has > started. Maybe the network is not up or the nameserver is not responding. exim4 does quite some DNS lookups during startup and if name resolution is not possible, you get the behavior you are seeing. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.