On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 18:43:58 EST, Roger Fajman said: > If it's all going out in under 4 seconds, then I'm not going to worry. :-) On the other hand, we move enough mail that if that average moves from 4 seconds to 6 seconds, it means that something is probably fairly hosed someplace and somebody needs to look at it. The last time something put a bump THAT big in our averages, it was our main mail hub being down for a good chunk of a morning. Remember, when you're tossing 250K connections and 1.5M RCPT TO's a day, it takes a *LOT* for one destination to move the average. Earlier releases of Sendmail were particularly notorious for starting a truly hideous downward spiral if stuff started piling up in the queue - fortunately, the 8.9 and 8.10.RealSoonNow releases have much better support for multiple queues, etc, so high-volume sites can deal better with a broken destination. /Valdis