Mikkel L. Ellertson : >> Now, as far as non-standard environments, needing Sendmail to accept >> connections from the Internet is a non-standard environment. Les Mikesell: > Beg your pardon? Email as we know it can't work unless this happens. Correction: E-mail as *YOU* know it... I've never had Linux accepting mail from the internet with its SMTP server, in all the years that I've used Linux. And only those with their own domain name and/or fixed IP address could to that, either. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.