Hello All With help from the knowldgable Juergen Braukmann Ive been able to get my mail to queue and send properly via sendmail -q However; when I compose a mail in pine (while offline - not connected to the net) then hit send... pine seems to try and send it immediatly rather than going directly to the mail queue. In other words I send a mail and it takes about 60 seconds + for pine to actually put it in the queue, during that time I cant do anything else in pine. Below is the output of my sendmail.rc.config. Im telling it -no dns-, and I dont see any setting in pine other than "background mode" which does nothing benificial in this case (still take 60 econds to send the mail to queue) What am I missing?? Im suspecting a dns issue but not sure what to adjust. I just want to be able to send mails to the queue without waiting.... thanks rob SENDMAIL_TYPE="yes" SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST="comet.connix.com" SENDMAIL_LOCALHOST="localhost Serina" SENDMAIL_RELAY="" # normal sites use "-bd -q30m -om". if you set SENDMAIL_EXPENSIVE and you SENDMAIL_ARGS="-bd -om" SENDMAIL_EXPENSIVE="yes" # you probably want to enable this on a SENDMAIL_EXPENSIVE system. SENDMAIL_NOCANONIFY="yes" # /etc/hosts as described for SENDMAIL_NOCANONIFY. For most # people using dial on demand SENDMAIL_NOCANONIFY should work. SENDMAIL_NODNS="yes" SENDMAIL_DIALUP="yes" SENDMAIL_GENERICS_DOMAIN=""