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? -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9