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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:05:18 +0300
From:      Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke>
To:        david@banning.com
Cc:        FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mutt stalls with Sending message...
Message-ID:  <20001017100518.S80270@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
In-Reply-To: <200010170249.CAA18754@d.tracker>;  from "David Banning" on Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:49:33AM %2B0000
References:  <200010170249.CAA18754@d.tracker>

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* David Banning <david@www3.pacific-pages.com> [20001017 09:54]:
=>when I send a message using mutt,  and then send it, it displays the
=>Sending message... at the bottom of the screen - which it should -
=>it stays there for a long time 5 - 30 min or more before sending though.

I used to have a similar scenario with mutt but in my case I had both
sendmail and Exim on the same machine. I had only configured exim to do
smart_host delivery but I gathered that mutt was using sendmail instead -
and I hadn't configured sendmail for smarthost delivery.
So I moved the sendmail binary out of the way and made a symlink to exim
and I was cured...

admin:/usr/libexec/sendmail$ ls -al
total 379
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel     512 Oct 16 09:27 .
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel    1536 Oct 15 16:43 ..
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      20 Oct 16 09:27 sendmail ->
/usr/local/sbin/exim
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  376544 Oct 15 16:43 sendmail.old
admin:/usr/libexec/sendmail$

I'm tempted to think that you need the rule

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSfoo.bar 

...in your sendmail.cf so that it doesn't do a DNS lookup for the hosts to
which you're sending mail.
I'm hoping that your resolver is properly configured.
If those two are not the cases than I'm sincerely sorry because I don't
use sendmail as my MTA..I use Exim.
I'm sure those sendmail guys out there will be able to help.

-Wash

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