Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 23:28:58 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Peter Losher <Peter.Losher@nominum.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pine "on hold" when sending (anyone ever have this problem) Message-ID: <20000503232858.A727@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005031033530.57711-100000@shell.nominum.com>; from Peter.Losher@nominum.com on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 10:40:38AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005031033530.57711-100000@shell.nominum.com>
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> I am not really sure if this is a Pine issue, FreeBSD issue, or a Postfix > issue. Our organization has 10 or so users running Pine (4.21) on a > FreeBSD v3.4-STABLE box under Postfix. Every once in awhile, when someone > sends a message, Pine will sit there on "Sending"... anywhere from 5-15 > minutes. Looking at the maillogs, Postfix grabbed the message and sent it > to the messages final destination all within 15 seconds. So why would Pine > just sit there "on hold" waiting? (It happens sporadically at best (once > or twice a day), enough to be an annoyance) I have no clue about it, but would like to know the answer. The same thing happens on a linux box we have (Red Hat 6.0) running the stock sendmail. It seems to happen most when there's a network problem and the nameserver / the mail relay upstream can't be contacted. It doesn't happen with elm or mutt on the same box. It doesn't happen with pine on other boxes on the same network running linux/freebsd and qmail. I don't think it happened on the freebsd box when it was running sendmail, but that was ages ago and I'm not sure now. I had assumed that it was a problem with the sendmail config on the above mentioned box (it's waiting for host lookups to timeout, or something) and I've been suggesting to the administrator of that box to switch to qmail, since at least it's easy to configure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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