Along with Paul and Valdis's recommendations - make sure that list doesn't have a bunch of people with SHORT822 and FULL822 for their header option. That will cause a separate queue entry for each one and a separate sendmail process to go along with it. Absolutely positively guaranteed to bring your system to its knees! -- Glenn A. Malling <[log in to unmask]> Syracuse University Computing Services +1 (315) 443-4111 220 Machinery Hall Syracuse, New York 13244-1260 Postmaster for SUnix and LISTSERV.