On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 15:46 -0700, Stephen Smoogen wrote: > The boxes were configured to use the local SMTP for some reason (I dont > know.. I just had to debug the problem). Thus the mail went from > client -> sendmail/var/spool/clientmqueue -> power-outage ooops Heh, that's just sick. How about my statement holding for when the clients are set up correctly? :-) (ie, if you don't use local sendmail and just do smtp, then local /var/spool isn't needed) So yes, the ability to have it, perfectly reasonable. Having it as the general case, perhaps overkill. Jeremy