Hi, On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 09:58:01PM +0000, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Greetings. > > I use webmail, i'm not running a mail server. At most i'd use an MUA > to comunicate with whichever mail services i use. However, i must have > exim4 installed. How can i work around this? Regardless of how much > resources it requires i find it irritating. The real nudge is having > "Starting MTA: " lagging by boot by half a minute or so.
It is well known problem which you can avoid by reconfiguring exim4. $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config When asked: Keep number of DNS-queries minimal (Dial-on-Demand)? Answer "YES" if you are not connected to insternet when booting. > Oddly enough running grep exim * on /var/log only returns matches in > the popularity contest, but not in dmesg. I do not get what you are at? > Can i have a regular desktop Debian without an MTA? Anything is possible ... but I recommend you not to do this. It is not worth your effort. Your problem was DNS look up. Please address the real problem but do not kill the messanger :-) Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
