There has been a lot of traffic about Exim, so I apologise if this is old hat. I use sendmail (with the 'expensive' option) to deliver local mail immediately and queue Internet mail until my cron job connects to my dial up ISP and then does a sendmail -q Can you do the same with Exim? Incidentally the reason I chose sendmail was that the exim documentation suggested it wouldn't work with nfs mounted /var/spool/mail (and it didn't). has that changed? regards Chris

