Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:34:58 +0200 From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: Karsten Fuhrmann <karsten_fuhrmann@cartoon-film.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail -> sendmail problem Message-ID: <200610041534.k94FYwfa056919@fire.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:52:52 %2B0200." <200610040752.k947qqlS051640@fire.jhs.private>
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> > > Is there a way to tweak the timeout behavior of sendmail, or maybe > > even no dns resolve option for sendmail, or even better some way to > > tell fetchmail to use the idle command to keep the connectio to the > > pop server open ? > > sendmail.mc supports FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains'), > http://www.sendmail.org/m4/README > but I dont know if it forces a skip of DNS lookup (to avoid delay > into your fetchmail timeout) PS I guess you'r using fetchmail built into/ called from sendmail: & that's why a timeout can occur. I do it a different way: fetchmail called from crontab, & localy delivers to me on gate host, & gate invokes another mail via ~/.forward to my internal network; More processing, but no DNS hang. -- Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen http://berklix.com Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. Don't buy it ! Get it free ! http://berklix.org/free-software
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