Tim: >> If you don't use nis, then it shouldn't be in there. Simon Slater: > I don't use nis so removed that from the quoted line. It only took > sendmail 2 minutes and sm-client 1 minute this time. Much better! That's still an extraordinary long time, I'd expect a few seconds at the most. That sounds like nothing provides an answer for the current addresses (DNS nor the hosts file). -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
