On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

: Yes, I've noticed that too. I now defer dns lookups by putting 
: 
:     mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail -odd %T";
: 
: in .fetchmailrc, which makes fetchmail go fast, but then I have to do a
: "sendmail -q" before my mail client will see the messages. At least this
: can be scripted.

Run "sendmail -q5m" - it will daemon itself, and run the queue automatically
every 5 minutes.  (You could use a differnt value such as 30s or 1m, of
course.)

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)