Thanks for the advice re. format of /etc/hosts. I've now set it to: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.1 teufel.hartford-hwp.com teufel
which seems a lot cleaner. I'm trying it now. I'd appreciate your inspecting the header of this message to see if there's any anomalies (gmane gateway for this list didn't like my header originally). My /etc/postfix/main.cf configuration is much like your own, except that I have "myhostname = teufel" in order to match the return from $ hostname -- my simple local host name. I believe this is OK. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]