> define(QUEUE_DIR,`/var/spool/mqueue/q*')
> define(`confTO_INITIAL', `2m')dnl
> define(`confTO_CONNECT', `2m')dnl
> define(`confTO_ICONNECT', `2m')dnl
> define(`confTO_HELO', `2m')dnl
> define(`confTO_RCPT', `2m')dnl
> define(`confTO_QUEUERETURN', `1h')dnl
> define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `30m')dnl
>
> The biggest performance boost is the define(QUEUE_DIR,`/var/spool/mqueue/q*')
> statment. This let's sendmail look into /var/spool/mqueue for all directories
> (and only directories) that start with a lower case 'q'.
>
> Being an old admin, I stretched my imagination and just created 10 directories
> like this:
>
> # cd /var/spool/mqueue
> # mkdir q0 q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 q6 q7 q8 q9
> # chown root.mail q0 q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 q6 q7 q8 q9
> # chmod 755 q0 q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 q6 q7 q8 q9
>


What version of sendmail are you running?  Mine doesn't seem to like the
multiple queues trick -- it complains that it "cannot
chdir(/var/spool/mqueue/q*): No such file or directory"...  I'm wondering if I
should upgrade or if there's something I've overlooked.