On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 16:55:32 +1000 David M <[log in to unmask]> said: >I see... but why does it take so long to actually pass that on to a >sendmail on the same machine? *shrug* Ask the people who wrote sendmail... >Does it actually waits for sendmail to >deliver it to its destination? No, it waits for sendmail to acknowledge the SMTP transaction. >Like if I do a tail -f listserv.log (or >run it from the console) it takes quite a while to process each "SMTP >to..." line. Note that the log is probably buffered. >Also the go.user file has an entry called > > #SMTP_HOSTNAME="myhostname" This is to bypass sendmail configuration errors. Eric