From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 2: 6:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED87437B4D7 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 02:06:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9H95sg11243; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:05:54 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:05:54 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: david@banning.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mutt stalls with Sending message... Message-ID: <20001017120554.B9227@sunbay.com> Mail-Followup-To: david@banning.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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@www3.pacific-pages.com on Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:49:33AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:49:33AM +0000, David Banning wrote: > 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. > > ps ax | grep send > shows > sendmail: accepting connections on port 25 (sendmail) > sendmail -oem -oi -- php-general@lists.php.net > > I know my mail server has to be authenticated before mail can be > sent - which I do at the same time with a POP. > My crontab does a POP at the top of every hour. > > I think it also takes just as long when I use the simple > mail program - it's just mail exits after I send, while mutt holds > the screen hostage until the mail has been sent. > > Any ideas how to solve this? > Put the following in your ~/.mutt/muttrc: set sendmail_wait=-1 -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message