I am not a unix/sendmail guru but as I understand it what happens with the modifiers that you are using with sendmail is that it *waits* for a response from the recipient server *before* processing the next email. As hotmail is so overloaded and slow this is possibly the problem. If you add the -odq modifier to your cmd line flags to sendmail your emails will be placed "on delivery queue" - in other words sendmail spools them. *Warning* the -odq option needs to be configured. If your sendmail is not configured to use it your emails will sit around forever! There is a short delay associated with this spooling, no doubt configurable and dependent on server load but also out of my area.

Hope this helps

open (MAIL,"|/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t -odq") 

cheers

tachyon

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