Reposted with a subject line - sorry folks. On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, thus spake Babu Kalakrishnan: > > Now when I try to send a mail from the user root to someother user > > avenger, the mail stays in the queue as 'Deferred'. I have installed Did you use the full hostname? For ex, if you mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] it'd work. Try /etc/sendmail.cw and see what it shows. > don't know why sendmail should make such a fuss about resolving the > "From:" address.. Must be something to do with _relaying_ after all !! :-) Maybe a mistake in the domain name he sent it to. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian | President, CAUCE India [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.india.cauce.org | Stopping Spam In India -- Our informal mission is to improve the love life of operators worldwide. -- Peter Behrendt, president of Exabyte -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please search the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before posting your question to avoid repetition and save bandwidth.