From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 0: 4:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFC3337B4CF for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 00:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.22.163.2] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13lQm9-000OI7-00; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:03:06 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13lQoI-000MTi-00; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:05:18 +0300 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:05:18 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: david@banning.com Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: mutt stalls with Sending message... Message-ID: <20001017100518.S80270@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , david@banning.com, FBSD-Q References: <200010170249.CAA18754@d.tracker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200010170249.CAA18754@d.tracker>; from "David Banning" on Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:49:33AM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-URL: web.iconnect.co.ke/users/wash X-Accept-Language: en X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa X-Uptime: 9:56AM up 8 days, 12:44, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David Banning [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 -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KENYA. The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -Eden Phillpotts To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message