Uhm.. My guess would be that its doing the DNS lookups so that it can
figure out what host(s) to send the message to. Unfortunately, you
really can't skip that step. As for why its taking 30 minutes, perhaps
some of the DNS servers for some of the domains he is trying to send to
are responding very slowly or not at all (resulting in it having to wait
for them to time-out)
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Marc Perkel wrote:
> I'm sure it's in the manual somewhere but here's my situation and I
> can't find the solution.
>
> When I send a message to a large number of people the message will sit
> there - apparently doing nothing - for a long time. Generally 30 minutes
> for 250 names. Then - it wakes up and delivers these messages very fast.
>
> I don't know what it's doing furing the 30 minute delay but I want to
> turn off whatever it's doing and have it just send the messages. If it's
> optimizing or verifying something then I want it to not optimize or
> verify.
>
> What do I need to do to speed this up? Sendmail doesn't have this delay.
>
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