>We've got a remote machine that dials in and connects for a few hours
>every day.  We got fed up with the sendmail messages (4 hours undelivered)
>as we spooled mail for that system, so we gave up and spool it to a file.

You realize you can change that timeout value, don't you?

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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