From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 14:46: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50CCF37B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:46:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay01.cablecom.net (relay01.cablecom.net [62.2.33.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 453B043E3B for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:45:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com) Received: from gicco.cablecom.ch (dclient217-162-156-181.hispeed.ch [217.162.156.181]) by relay01.cablecom.net (8.11.6/8.11.4/SOL/AWF/MXRELAY/06072001) with ESMTP id g6ILjvV14271; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:45:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from idefix@localhost) by gicco.cablecom.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g6ILjwZ26270; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:45:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:45:58 +0200 From: Hanspeter Roth To: Gorden Fischer Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Local mail delivery agent Message-ID: <20020718234558.A26209@gicco.cablecom.ch> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: Gorden Fischer , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from gfish123@pacbell.net on Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 08:18:58AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Jul 18 at 08:18, Gorden Fischer spoke: > Dear sirs: > > My box is running BSD 4.3. I use fetchmail to fetch all my emails from > the ISP. Often when I fetched the mail I ran pine and the mail is not > there yet. > > I think the local mail agent hasn't delivered the mail to my mailbox yet. > I use sendmail, is there a way to speed things up? Maybe some messages are still in the queue. Did you check with mailq? Maybe sendmail is still about to resolve some hostnames. Sendmail can chose to drop messages from unresolvable sources. If you are using the .mc file you might try: FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message