Greetings: I have installed qmail and vpopmail on a dedicated server. The hostname is inloc.inloc.com and there are 5 IP's on this machine. I've registered a domain name (ducaniveaux.com) to one of them, using a host-provided program called 'spectro', and I want to do virtual subhosting under it. I receive mail as expected in the Maildir, /home/vpopmail/domains/ducaniveaux.com/postmaster/Maildir/new, but I can't retrieve it; I get a: Connection reset by remote side (10054) message. Is it perhaps because I don't have the DNS MX records set up correctly? There is no 'named.hosts' file on my machine. Because this is a dedicated server, perhaps they are handling this elsewhere. Moreover, when I installed qmail, I got the following message: --- Checking local IP addresses: 127.0.0.1: Adding localhost to control/locals... 216.71.84.136: Adding inloc.inloc.com to control/locals... 64.33.89.34: PTR lookup failed. I assume this address has no DNS name. 64.33.89.35: PTR lookup failed. I assume this address has no DNS name. 64.33.89.36: PTR lookup failed. I assume this address has no DNS name. 64.33.89.71: PTR lookup failed. I assume this address has no DNS name. 64.33.89.72: PTR lookup failed. I assume this address has no DNS name. --- 64.33.89.36 is the IP assigned to ducaniveaux.com. I used vadddomain and vadduser to add the ducaniveaux.com domain and [EMAIL PROTECTED] user. vpopmail added 'ducaniveaux.com:ducaniveaux.com' to /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains (it is not in /locals). My control/defaultdelivery is set to ./Maildir/ Here's the relevant part of my qmail startup script: #!/bin/sh PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin export PATH case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting qmail: svscan" tcpserver -H -R 0 pop-3 \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup inloc.inloc.com \ /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir & cd /var/qmail/supervise env - PATH="$PATH" svscan & echo $! > /var/run/svscan.pid echo "." ;; stop) I believe 'pop-3' is right; here's what's in services: pop-3 110/tcp # PostOffice V.3 pop 110/tcp # PostOffice V.3 I haven't edited /etc/inetd.conf. Anything else? :·) Thanks for your help. -- Lou Hevly [EMAIL PROTECTED]