Hi Well I got my fetchmail troubles sorted out, the sendmail daemon was not running in my rc scripts. They appear to have been screwed up very badly. Basically, no daemon would run if networking successfully initialized. The odd thing was, removing the script and reinstalling it from slackware's package produced the same result. It appears the script is supposed to be written that way, but why did this never happen before is beyond me. Basically I had to do a temporary fix, that is, changing the script. Anyone know what could have caused this to suddenly happen, and why a complete script reinstall produced this exact result?