Hi again, thanks again for all the continued help with my SENDMAIL woes...... 1.I can send mail to the internet...isn't that on PORT 25? 2.ps agr gives sendmail accepting connection on Port 25. 3. If I try to run sendmail in the foreground SENDMAIL -bD I get opendaemonsocket; cannot bind Address already in use. WHAT? Still can't see what. 4. I'm getting confused with inetd.conf. THis contains a hashed out smtd line that I don't need according to what I've read because the SENDMAIL daemon now runs things? I made changes to hosts.allow as suggested by Frank and when I try /usr/sbin/tcpdchk -v -i /etc/inetd.conf it tells me about an unknown operation in inetd.conf. 5. When I telnet to my FQDN on port 25 I get refused and it then tries the local host. I found a useful page on the net in SWEDISH! 6. Here are the last few lines from todays log. starting daemon SMTP NOQUEUE SYSERR(root) opendeamonsocket cannot bind address in use problem creating SMTP socket Why isn't ps agr (or whatever) listing something else on PORT 25 if that is what it is complaining about........ glug....glug.......... James Carter