sendmail + fetchmail problem

Hello,

I use a RedHat 7.9 linux system, with Sendmail 8.11 and fetchmail to manage
e-mails.

The problem is that sendmail takes a long time to accept the sender's
address. In fact, as I've probed, if sendmail receives a address like this:

MAIL FROM:<(E-Mail Removed)>

it takes about three minutes to accept that address and show the message

(E-Mail Removed)...sender OK

But my ISP doesn't wait for so long time, and when fetchmail wants to delete
the mail, my ISP sends a timeout message and closes then connection.

So I need to know two questions:

a) how can I get Sendmail not to resolve addresses.
b) how to get Fetchmail do all its job with the external server before
trying to send the messages to Sendmail.

Thank you very much.

On 2004-09-01, Koldo Navarro <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> The problem is that sendmail takes a long time to accept the sender's
> address.

Is probably trying to authenticate the sender with a reverse-lookup
and failing at it, you could reconfigure your sendmail to avoid
authentication (but this will increase the amount of spam probably).

> b) how to get Fetchmail do all its job with the external server before
> trying to send the messages to Sendmail.

You don't. If fetchmail delete the message on the external server and
then (for any reason) he can't send the mail to the internal one your
mail is lost.

Davide

--
Workers of the world, arise! You have nothing to lose but your
chairs.

Thank you very much.

But, How can I configure my sendmail to avoid authentication? I have tried
out every option I have read, but I can't get it.


"Davide Bianchi" <(E-Mail Removed)> escribió en el mensaje
news:(E-Mail Removed) .net...
> On 2004-09-01, Koldo Navarro <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > The problem is that sendmail takes a long time to accept the sender's
> > address.
>
> Is probably trying to authenticate the sender with a reverse-lookup
> and failing at it, you could reconfigure your sendmail to avoid
> authentication (but this will increase the amount of spam probably).
>
> > b) how to get Fetchmail do all its job with the external server before
> > trying to send the messages to Sendmail.
>
> You don't. If fetchmail delete the message on the external server and
> then (for any reason) he can't send the mail to the internal one your
> mail is lost.
>
> Davide
>
> --
> Workers of the world, arise! You have nothing to lose but your
> chairs.