Sounds like you have moved from one problem to another to me. I would start looking at sendmail configuration. It may only be set to work with the external IP address. In which case when your not connected it will just sit there with none to work with. Perhaps you need to tell it to send local mail to the loopback address? ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.