System very slow to boot

[David Landgren]

Kevin.Greenidge1 at VerizonWireless.com wrote:
> 1) Since reloading my system I find that it is very slow to boot. It looks
> like it hangs while trying the load the sendmail and sendmail-client
> daemons. It eventually boots after 20 minutes or so. I tried disabling
> sendmail but it still boots very slow. The initial bootup right after

On the chance that you really don't want sendmail (if only to run a 
different MTA such as exim, postfix or qmail), you have to set two 
values in rc.conf:

sendmail_enable="NO"
mta_start_script=""

It's the latter one that tripped me up. But anyway, you do need 
functional DNS.

David