It seemed to happen when I upgraded the smail package... probably to .101.... smail no longer delivers mail immediately. It queues it up in /var/spool/smail/input until runq is run. I've tried setting "delivery_mode=foreground" and "delivery_mode=background" in /etc/smail/config.... and I've also tried running the smail daemon with the "-odf" flag, but nothing seems to work. Any ideas? - Joe