Hi Mike First thing that should be fixed is you getting a reasonable nameserver. This should clear up the problems. You really don't want to change much in the way of sendmail configuration because you don't want to open yourself up as a relay for spam. On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Mike keithley wrote: > This is probably off topic but the problem occurs getting mail from this > list so I thought I'd ask the experts. > > I use fetchmail to get mail from shellworld.net (my ISP). Fetchmail > negotiates with sendmail to get mail into my local mailbox. Sendmail seems to > want to verify that the sender domain is valid and checks a route. > the intermittent problem is this: -- Frank Carmickle phone: 412 761-9568 email: frankiec at dryrose.com