Quoting I R Baboon (ben at nerp.net):
> if i remember right, sourceforge uses mailman, and they send a couple
> hundred thousand emails before lunchtime.  I've never heard of mailman
> being "slow"

If a subsriber's address does not have an MX record, the mailman hangs on trying
to deliver that mail message for hours.

I have posted a bug to mailman on this.

So, what options in sendmail can I use to help speed up delivery?

If a host is down?

If address does not have MX record?


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