On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 21:59 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > The point I missed is why "when it can" would ever be longer than > sendmail's default timeout. If you are counting on this to be usable, > wouldn't you kick off a connection and a queue run more often than > that? That was what got me the first time around, the time period wasn't suitable. It worked at first, then after a weekend things got thrown back at me. I forgot about that at the time I first set things up. For some home uses, with a single phone line that you want kept free most of the time, and people that do internet stuff irregularly, networks may stay off-line for quite some time. Thankfully that situation was remedied when broadband became reasonably available. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.