fabian wrote: > > Dear All, > > I am sorry for the post here but really apprecite if someone could help me > or advise. > actually i just could not subscribe to sendmail mailing list Check your DNS settings, make sure the name server can resolve your address both forward and reverse, that's often the cause of this sort of delay. Host file entries are typically not enough, if I remember right, the system call sendmail(and postfix I think) uses somehow bypasses the host file or something. nate