I seem to be having intermittent problems using sendmail to relay from my Linux box to my windows box. The Linux machine is running a DNS server along with DHCP server - the '95 box gets it's IP and name from this machine. This all works fine - I can ping, masquerade all that good stuff. I've set sendmail up to route all given mail to an smtp server running on the win95 box by an entry in the /etc/mail/mailertable file - this all works okay. If both machines are up, mail is relayed across just fine, however, if the Windows box is not switched on when sendmail tries to relay mail to it, I get logged 'Deferred: No route to host' - fine. But after I switch the Windows box on - it gets a valid IP, name etc, kick sendmail (sendmail -q) I still get the 'no route to host' messages logged. Can't seem to persuade it to recognize the machine is 'there' as it were. Only way I can seem to get it to work is to connect to the 'net, disconnect then kick it - all okay. On a side note, if you are not using 'rc.config' provide the sendmail parameters, where do you specify the startup params (as in '-q30 -om' business) - I'd like to turn the 30 minute delivery off if I can. Cheers. -- == jon bird - software engineer == == == posted as: news@onastick.clara.co.uk == email: jon@onasticksoftware.co.uk == web: www.onasticksoftware.co.uk -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq