wait a minute

[Kirk Wood]

Sounds like you have moved from one problem to another to me. I would
start looking at sendmail configuration. It may only be set to work with
the external IP address. In which case when your not connected it will
just sit there with none to work with. Perhaps you need to tell it to send
local mail to the loopback address?

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Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net

Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.