In article <Pine.NEB.4.05.9905270806160.2029-100000@localhost> fredfl2@soback.kornet.net (Guy Santiglia) writes:
>
>  My machine has really been booting slowly.  It gets stuck for about
>a minute or two at:
>
>"preserving editor files"

do you have a lot of files in /var/tmp/vi.recover?

Since it tries to send mail for every file, it could be that your
sendmail is not configured properly?

christos