[Mailman-Users] reverse lookups on localhost

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 24 May 2001 17:22:21 -0700 
Harold Paulson <haroldp at sierraweb.com> wrote:

> I'm using Mailman and Sendmail.  When Mailman gets a message in
> queue going to a broken MX, it can REALLY wedge things up.  It
> looks like qrunner just sits there waiting for the DNS to come
> back until it finally times out.  It can clog things up to the
> point that messages farther back in the queue never get a chance.

This has been extensively discussed on the list.  There are two
answers:

  1) Change MTAs.  (recommended)

  2) You can reconfigure Sendmail (see list archives) however you
  lose slam filtering capabilities (cf Chuq's statements).

Suggest: Look into Exim or Postfix instead.  Sendmail is not worth
your time.

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