Paul, > The one I use for LAN clients on my work network is: Sorry for the delay - had to do something else this morning > divert(-1) > ... All the entries are still in /var/spool/mqueue saying: LAA01551 53 Wed Nov 3 11:16 root (Deferred: No route to host) jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and the log entries say: Nov 3 15:13:41 fred sendmail[3702]: LAA01551: to=jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=03:57:27, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, relay=relay-2.mail.demon.net., stat=Deferred: No route to host Given that this machine can't see the 'Net, where is it getting the name of the relay machine from ? Jonathan