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sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi all > > I have setup a new smtp/pop3 server and ran into some issues. I used to hack sendmail a lot when it was pretty much the only game in town so don't have the aversion to it that many people do, but in all honesty I'm tempted to suggest that since exim is available ready-built for CentOS5, just install that instead. It's so much easier than sendmail to get working. If you're determined to stick to sendmail though, first I'd stop using the example.co.uk domain unless it really is yours, since that domain does exist and may be confusing things. The error messages look like the sendmail is trying to talk to an smtp server to deliver email, but failing to connect. Possibly that's because the configuration isn't correct and it doesn't recognise example.co.uk as a local domain, but there should be more data than that. I suspect the configuration is set up such that it recognises w2200a.example.co.uk as the local domain when you want it just to be example.co.uk. I'm not entirely sure why it's trying to deliver email to root@w2200a rather than just root, either. The lines you give appear to relate to an email that's already been delayed by 4 days 19 hours, so a fresh sample might be a better place to start, with all the log entries that relate to that delivery. Other random things that occur to me are that perhaps sendmail is only listening on the loopback interface, or that it isn't configured to run as a daemon in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html