Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20220929213725.gar4l%stef...@sdaoden.eu>: |Viktor Dukhovni wrote in | <yzxedjcbxxob5...@straasha.imrryr.org>: ||On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 07:25:48PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: ||> But on FreeBSD (only VM here for some years) on fresh install ||> i always have sendmail hang minutes upon startup (i interrupt to ||> come to login, which thankfully works), because it is of the ||> opinion that the hostname is not valid on the network, or ||> something. I do not have the same problem with postfix though. || ||By design. As Wietse has explained from time to time, Postfix starts up ||and delivers local mail even when the network is down. Delivering mail ||to remote systems of course requires some form of connectivity (dialup ||uucp could still be used in principle). | |I think it has something to do with uname(2) that is used in order |to query the nodename of the box. For my little mailer (MUA)
That is, i have seen such hangs with my MUA -- whether sendmail hangs due to this, i do not know. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
