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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:

> Good question.  First, you need to know why it's dialling out.  Then
> you can block that particular message from causing a dialout.
> 
> At a guess, mail is performing a DNS lookup.  You can find out for
> sure with tcpdump.  One alternative would then be to change your DNS
> configuration.  But first, let's see what the cause is.

I'm assuming its a DNS lookup also, but Ive been too lazy to learn 
dfilters to block a lookup. 

I'll get to it over the next couple of days.

Thanks Greg.

Keith.