I un-broke DNS on my server so emails now send. I apologize for the flurry of emails, Peter has three tunnel end points and I forgot that my trigger operates on rows [0], so even though I did a single UPDATE it called the trigger function 3 times. I think Peter got 9 emails out of that, so don't feel as bad as him. :) -brian [0] - This is the only way I can get the changed data to pass along to the python script.