Brion Vibber wrote:
We’re looking at the way the mail servers are set up to see if we can ensure that internal connections don’t stall the way they were; we should also be able to rearrange the transactions so that things are committed before the mail goes out!
Why does mediawiki need to wait on sendmail? If there's an error sending the email it will most likely be on the user end, such as accounts no longer existing. No need to have apaches waiting on sendmails correctly configured.