>Sounds like a DNS related problem... Are you on a permenent internet
>connection, or dialup? If the latter, it takes some work to have sendmail
>queue incoming mail and not perform any DNS inquiries on the addresses in
>the headers.

From the looks of the MIT directions for cgiemail, it shouldn't matter if 
SendMail is slow in actually sending the message.

Does SendMail do any DNS lookups before accepting the message into the 
queue? (I am on a 24x7 DSL connection)

-chris
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