>Same here, I don't like having mail daemons running on 30+ virtual >machines, but I do it anyway, with postfix similar to Nate. I'm >obsessive-compulsive when it comes to minimizing the footprint of a >virtual machine, but I've given up on this one. An advantage to having >outbound mail handled by a local daemon is the queuing of failures. >When your mail server or network is temporarily down, you don't want >to lose messages. Yeah, that is my reasoning but your justification is good. Thanks guys! jlc