It's really a DNS problem that is manifesting itself with sendmail... > EHLO nerdulator.net gives a proper response, but Because nerdulator.net is in the DNS tables > EHLO nerdulator.nerdulator.net gives a timeout error, as well as > EHLO anything.whatever Are not. > Is this a problem anybody else has had? I got around it by just changing > the system's hostname to "nerdulator.net" with no computer name, but I > understand that this is generally a bad idea for various reasons. I have seen this problem and have fixed it in DNS (where I had the DNS zone server at hand) Otherwise, turn your host name back the nerdulator.nerdulator.net and edit you sendmail.cf file, find the Dj directive and make it read Djnerdulator.net This will make sendmail introduce itself as nerdulator.net to other hosts, instead of using it's FQDN. -- Anthony Toft -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body