I've got 6.3 Running sendmail delivering to a smarthost on my ISP. I'm running a caching only named(8). I have a dialup connection (using dial on demand). I'm unclear of the advantage of running sendmail to send to my ISP, if any. My ISP may queue my outgoing mail delaying it by some amount of time. Seems like it would be better to let sendmail lookup the mx records and deliver directly -- to get my mail to the recipient faster. What do you do? Do I just remove the define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp:[smtp.best.com]') from my .mc file to make sendmail deliver directly? Thanks, Here's my .mc file, just in case. I'm not sure what much of it does ;) [BTW -- I don't understand that use of dnl (delete to new line) in this config files - can someone explain?] divert(-1) include(`../m4/cf.m4') OSTYPE(`suse-linux') undefine(`UUCP_RELAY') undefine(`BITNET_RELAY') define(`confAUTO_REBUILD') define(`confTO_CONNECT', `1m') define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST',true) define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES',true) FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh') FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable') FEATURE(redirect) FEATURE(use_cw_file) MAILER(procmail) MAILER(smtp) dnl HACK(check_mail3,`hash -a@JUNK /etc/mail/deny') dnl HACK(use_ip,`/etc/mail/ip_allow') dnl HACK(use_names,`/etc/mail/name_allow') dnl HACK(use_relayto,`/etc/mail/relay_allow') dnl HACK(check_rcpt4) dnl HACK(check_relay3) FEATURE(blacklist_recipients) dnl FEATURE(relay_based_on_MX) define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp:[smtp.best.com]') MASQUERADE_AS(`hank.org') FEATURE(masquerade_envelope) define(RELAY_MAILER, TCP) FEATURE(accept_unqualified_senders) FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) FEATURE(nocanonify) Bill Moseley mailto:moseley@hank.org -- 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/Doku/FAQ/