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sendmail can't send to hotmail address

Subject: sendmail can't send to hotmail address
From: gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 08:33:01 -0400
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jul 2002 03:43:53 EDT." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0207270333190.16774-100000@colossus.bilow.com>

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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