Hi: I use a SuSE Linux 8.0 with sendmail and fetchmail. When fetchmail downloads mail and sendmail is somewhat saturated fetchmail gives the error (in fetchmail.log, I use 'x' for the number of messages): 'reading message 1 of 'x' ('number' of octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to local host failed can't raise the listener falling back to /usr/sbin/sendmail %Tfetchmail: flushed' All the 'x' messages get flushed and delivered to the sendmail binary, but they don't get delivered to the user, they stay (until they're mailed as an error to the postmaster), in: /var/spool/clientmqueue (notice that in my default configuration the mail queue is /var/spool/mqueue) It seems that this queue (...clientmqueue) is not being processed. Questions: 1) How do I use process this queue? 2) How do I stop this from happening: either processing this queue also or delivering mail, when I get this error, to the ...mqueue? Thanks for any info,