Pardon my stupidity but is Chris Withers' Stepper the right thing for me...? I've got a message central that accepts and sends messages. The system has an in-part and and out-part that is quite separate. Then there's third party code that looks a bit like this: <pseudocode> def acceptIncomingMessage(self, message): # add to the queue self.getMCentral().storeMessage(message) # process all (should be only one) items off the queue self.getMCentral().sendAllUnsent() return "cool" </pseudocode> The call to sendAllUnsent() I would prefer if it was done asyncronously in case it takes several seconds. I could accomplish this by having a cron job calling it every 5 minutes but ldeally I don't want to rely on cron for this setup. Is Stepper the right thing for me? -- Peter Bengtsson, work www.fry-it.com home www.peterbe.com hobby www.issuetrackerproduct.com