Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1919 mails)

[arunkhan@xxxxxxxx (Arun K. Khan)]

At 05:18 PM 7/7/98 +0100, Jochen_Hayek@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>>>>> "AS" == Avi Schwartz <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>    AS> I am trying to use fetchmail to fetch all my mail from my ISP's POP3
>    AS> server to my machine.  I managed to set .fetchmailrc so it
connects to
>    AS> the ISP's POP3 server and start downloading the mail.  The problem is
>    AS> that it is extremely slow.  It can take up to five (!) minutes to
>    AS> download a 2K message which takes almost no time when I use
netscape to
>    AS> get the same message.
>
>    AS> It basically gets stuck on the line that says SMTP> MAIL
>    AS> FROM:<owner-suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx> SIZE=2619
>
>That's the DNS look up.
>
>fetchmail actually uses sendmail for local delivery of the messages,
>and sendmail tries to validate the sender of that particular message.

Isn't there some kind of setting in sendmail to not do DNS lookup and
instead use the ISP's SMTP server as the "smart host"?

-- Arun Khan
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