On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 10:05, A.J. Bonnema wrote: > Has anyone else experienced an exctreeeemely slow startup for sendmail > and sm-client? > > I checked the archives for this list, but couldn't find it. > > What could I do to find out what the problem is? ---- probably because you have fiddled with /etc/hosts and/or /etc/sysconfig/network and sendmail is trying to figure out what the hostname is Craig