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It might be DNS related. Have you checked the log files to see if it is
trying to resolve a hostname or MX record for the RCPT domain?

Seeya...Q

On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 15:14, Mail Monitor wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running sendmail on FreeBSD 4.7 and have a
> problem with sendmail.
> 
> Even though the sendmail is running, the
> mails are not coming into the server.
> 
> I tried sending a mail from command line using
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -v abc@xxx.yyy. The output
> of this command hangs just before DATA i.e
> EHLO, MAIL from are supported. But i donot get
> "Recipient ok" it takes 10 min to complete the
> mail delivery and hangs after "RCPT To" for 10 min.
> 
> Any clue why it happens?
> 
> Thanks
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