I managed to get out onto the internet with red hat and eznet and help from Bill. When I try to send replies to email though those get returned and I find sendmail has intermixed the host name I chose for my system into those email addresses. Since the mixing happens in the domain name part of the email address and that mixing turns my email address into something unknown by the internet things are going to get returned. Does anybody know how to conceal a chosen host name from sendmail so sendmail doesn't trash outgoing email addresses to the point this doesn't happen? Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>