We send tons of mail to hotmail users daily, and it will not matter what you use to send mail there, it will always be slow. You will see many timeouts, and you will experience occational bounces for users that exist. It is the nature of the undermaintained beast MS has created there. I cant speak for the other sites, but the best thing you can do for hotmail is to just be patient. If sendmail appears to be doing nothing else when trying to send to hotmail (as it times out) there may be a problem with sendmail, but it should be able to handle several connections to various servers at once. We just set our timeouts low so they can get past them faster and retry more often. Jay On Thursday 27 June 2002 1:48 pm, Steve Siegfried wrote: > I run a web site and mailing list from my Linux PC. > > Has anyone else out there recently started seeing sendmail (I'm using > sendmail-8.11.6) just plain hang while trying to send email to certain > Microsoft-centric sites? > > I.e.: sites like: > hotmail.com > stny.rr.com > pacbell.net > or mindspring.com? > > Any help on this would be appreciated muchly! > > -Steve Siegfried > sos at zjod.net > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list