On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Pere Camps wrote: >Hi! > > I'm running pine 3.96 and debian 1.3.latest with smail. > > Sometimes when I send messages from pine it tells me: > > [Sending mail | 100% |] > > But the program is blocked and it takes anything from 2 minutes to >10 to unblock. If i run mailq, the message I just sent is in the queue. > > Any ideas?
this used to happen a lot of my redhat system. it boils down to one of two things ... according to the sendmail faq, a dodgy ident daemon can cause sendmail to hang unless you specify the timeout (setting it to 0 is helpful at these times) value explicitly in the sendmail.cf the problem I found was that when running named locally, sendmail had enough smarts to know it could begin to deliver the message but then waited for the name server to time out a couple of times before realizing the ppp connection was off line. my solution to that problem was two-fold. 1) always use a name server off site ... not perfect, but for most dial up accounts it works. 2) set sendmail to run in queue-only mode. it'll take an explicit sendmail -q or waiting for the sendmail daemon interval for mail to be sent from your system 3) fiddle with PINE's 'send mail in background' settings. Of the three, I personally found (1) the most effective. If you tell us how your network is configured and whether you're running a dialup or permanent connection it'd help to determine the problem more specifically... - dave -- | oOOooO / [EMAIL PROTECTED] --| oOobodoO / We're just two lost souls, swimming in a --| ooOoOo / fish bowl, year after year. Running over | II / the same old ground, what have we found, | II / The same old fears. Wish you were Here.
