> 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. Check the full headers of the email you eventually got - you said you had some "spoofing" going on, essentially. Your ISP may have held up the email due to SPF issues or similar. RFC issues. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"