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- From: rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: IDA-sendmail takes forever to build aliases
- Message-ID: <rhoward.714944884@matd>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 19:48:04 GMT
- References: <rhoward.714923704@matd>
- Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU
- Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute
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- rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
-
- >The only real problem/concern I have is the length of time it
- >take to build the aliases (either using 'sendmail -bi' or
- >'newaliases'). On my Sun SparcStation it takes nearly 3 minutes
- >for 86 aliases. Most of them are of the type:
-
- >firstname.lastname@matd.gatech.edu:accountname@matd.gatech.edu
-
- >(These are falling out of my xaliases file since I am doing
- >outbound rewriting too.)
-
- Well, thanks for the responses. Neil Rickert was especially
- helpful. The correct answer is:
-
- Don't put the @matd.gatech.edu at the end of everything. If every-
- thing else is configured correctly, then things will work. (sendmail
- was looking up matd.gatech.edu from the nameserver about 50 times)
- Everything works now! The result is that building newaliases now only
- takes a couple of seconds.
-
- Thanks to the following:
-
- Neil W Rickert <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
- pascoe%rocky.dnet@gte.com (Dave Pascoe)
- Christopher Davis <ckd@eff.org>
-
- Also inculded was the suggestion to use the frozen config file. That's
- the next thing to do...
-
- Robert
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