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Title: Computer waits while booting during the SMTP initialisation

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Computer waits while booting during the SMTP initialisation

Applicable to
S.u.S.E. version: from 4.2 on
Kernel version: irrelevant

Symptom:

While booting, the computer finds whenever the SMTP initialisation instead of the mailsystem. There the computer freezes for a long time (ca. 30 seconds) before it continues as if nothing would have happened.

Cause:

sendmail tries to find out the computer name. If that takes long, then sendmail tries to find out the name on a DNS server. This demands a name server or a correct file /etc/hosts.

Solution:

Please proceed as follows:

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Keywords: SENDMAIL, SMTP, BOOT, INSTALLATION, MAIL, EMAIL, E-MAIL

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