[ic] Some emails can't be sent - could this be why ? LOG DATA

[DB]

>> /cgi-bin/STORE/process.html Unable to send mail using /usr/lib/sendmail
> 
>     First determine if sendmail is even being invoked, see if you can
> correlate the time in the interchange error log with something in syslog or
> mail.err (depending on your mail system config).
> 
> 
> Jeff
> 

Here's info from my system logs. I'll compare order "1" that had the 
problem with order "2" which did not.

For order 1, where the email did not arrive, /var/log/maillog shows the 
receipt to the customer being sent ok but there's no sign of the order 
being mailed to me, no error... nothing. I had to get the credit card 
info from the catalog's error log.

30 min later order 2 is placed and the maillog shows both the receipt 
sent to the customer and the order sent to me normally.

Now during the time that order 1 was placed, /var/log/messages shows 
alot of "lame server" entries. By "alot" I mean like 8 during the same 
second. This did not happen during order 2. Perhaps these are slowing 
the server's DNS causing sendmail to timeout? Maybe I should try to 
increase that timeout ?? What do you guys think?

DB