Hi list, thanks for your help already, but still I have those shitty timeout problems. I added the "Hello => 'hostname'" thing, and indeed it improves the speed quite a bit, but still the script takes about 40 seconds to reply, if it even does (timeout). It's just a very simplistic email-script, grabbing things from the QUERY_STRING, which doesn't take up time either. If i try it on my own linux server it reply's within 1 second (!). And no, i cannot use that server for work, and my boss doesn't wanna buy MacOS X yet :/ Well, maybe you have any idea's ... thanks, Martijn Houtman a.k.a. tinus # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org