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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:45:58 +0200
From:      Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com>
To:        Gorden Fischer <gfish123@pacbell.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Local mail delivery agent
Message-ID:  <20020718234558.A26209@gicco.cablecom.ch>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207180814110.40204-100000@nonexistent.pacbell.net>; from gfish123@pacbell.net on Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 08:18:58AM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207180814110.40204-100000@nonexistent.pacbell.net>

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  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

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