Alexander Dalloz wrote: > taking the information from your other posting of this thread you were > using the sendmail binary to send the message. This leads to using the > submission mechanism (that's ok and standard). > > The MSP accepted your message - thus the "queued mail for delivery" log > note - and tried to send it out using the MTA daemon part of your > sendmail installation. > > Until this is successful the message is kept queued in > /var/spool/clientmqueue, to be queried by > > mailq -Ac Thanks very much for your useful posting. The mail is arriving now without delay, so the problem must just have been that my remote ISP did not like me giving a local address. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland