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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 67b7e051..2d1f0682 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/12/03 05:47:01 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/12/03 15:54:06 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -1635,18 +1635,24 @@ will look right.<p> <hr> <h2><a name="O6">O6. I'm seeing long sendmail delays at start of each poll cycle.</a></h2> -Sendmail does a hostname lookup when it gets a HELO. Your resolver -configuration may be causing that to fail and time out. Check -<code>/etc/resolv.conf</code> and <code>/etc/hosts</code> file. Make -sure your hostname and FQDN are both in <code>/etc/hosts</code>, and -that hosts is looked at before DNS is queried. You probably also want -your remote mail server to be in the hosts file.<p> +Sendmail does a hostname lookup when it first starts up, and also each +time it gets a HELO in listener mode.<p> + +Your resolver configuration may be causing one of these lookups to +fail and time out. Check <code>/etc/resolv.conf</code> and +<code>/etc/hosts</code> file. Make sure your hostname and FQDN are +both in <code>/etc/hosts</code>, and that hosts is looked at before +DNS is queried. You probably also want your remote mail server(s) to +be in the hosts file.<p> + +You can suppress the startup-time lookup if need to by reconfiguring +with <code>FEATURE(nodns)</code>.<p> <HR> <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/12/03 05:47:01 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/12/03 15:54:06 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |