diff --git a/scripts/msmtpq/msmtpq b/scripts/msmtpq/msmtpq
index bcb384e..9622e47 100755
--- a/scripts/msmtpq/msmtpq
+++ b/scripts/msmtpq/msmtpq
@@ -60,8 +60,6 @@ err() { dsp '' "$@" '' ; exit 1 ; }
 ##   export the location of the msmtp executable before running this script  (no quotes !!)
 ##   e.g. ( export MSMTP=/path/to/msmtp )
 MSMTP="${MSMTP:-msmtp}"
-"$MSMTP" --version >/dev/null 2>&1 || \
-  log_later -e 1 "msmtpq : can't run the msmtp executable [ $MSMTP ]"   # if not found - complain ; quit
 ##
 ## set the queue var to the location of the msmtp queue directory
 ##   if the queue dir doesn't yet exist, create it (0700)