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sendmail can't send to hotmail address



Thanks Mike,
It is currently set to background. When there seems to be some delays I'll 
change it to defer.
Michael Bilow wrote:
> There is a setting available in sendmail.cf ("O DeliveryMode=defer") which
> is specifically intended to acocmplish this.  All client mail is queued
> and DNS lookups are deferred until the queue run for the delivery attempt.
> This is equivalent to specifying "-odd" on the command line.
> 
> Whether this is a good idea is debatable.
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