On Monday 18 April 2005 06:54, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Mo, den 18.04.2005 schrieb Joe um 12:39: > > I did this just by creating .forward in /root and adding the following: > > > > joe@bean (bean is the home ocmputers names) > > > > Hope this helps. > > It will help not. > > > Joe > > > > > Here is the message I'm receiving: > > > > > > Returned mail: see transcript for details > > > Date: 04-17-2005 0429 > > > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > To: root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > The original message was received at Sun, 17 Apr 2005 04:29:32 -0700 > > > from root@localhost > > > > > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > > > root > > > (reason: 553 5.5.4 <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Real domain name required > > > for sender address) > > > (expanded from: root) > > The DSN the recipient MTA gives is pretty clear. It does not accept > unresolvable domain names - which is fine. > > Alexander Hi Alexander: So how do I get the name to resolve now? Between /etc/resolve.conf and /etc/hosts I would think that would not be a problem. >>> /etc/resolve.conf <<< search home nameserver 204.127.198.4 nameserver 63.240.76.4 nameserver 12.242.16.50 >>>/etc/hosts <<< 192.168.0.10 linux.home linux 127.0.0.1 linux2 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.20 dos.home dos 192.168.0.30 win2k.home win2k 192.168.0.40 betty.home betty 192.168.0.50 laptop.home laptop 192.168.0.100 test.home test 192.168.0.15 linux2.home linux2 I had some questions in my original post that your comment above don't answer. What is it in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc that needs to be changed? Sorry if I seem dense. Getting older and beginning to have dementia problems is my only excuse. Thanks for your help, both for myself and others on this list. Thanks, Tom -- Tom Taylor registered linux user #263467