Hi, Well I don't know whether its my exim/mutt prob or the uni's mail system now. Difficult to setup exim/mail when the uni has mail probs. I get the following error when I send mail internally either to others or to myself as in the headers below. The mail bounces with: unknown local-part "mike.lake" in domain "uts.edu.au" NOTE: this mail is being sent from Netscape Mail NOT Mutt to ensure it gets to you all without bouncing.... :-) In mutt I have set: my_hdr From: Mike Lake<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> set use_from # always generate the `From:' header field alternatively are there particular entries in the exim.conf file I should check? But mainly whats the error actually mean? Should the envelope or return path be [EMAIL PROTECTED] as that is my email addr here. The mikel is just my login on my Linux box. >From MAILER-DAEMON Thu May 10 10:15:13 2001 Return-path: <> <--- Ummm ? Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <--- Ummm? Delivery-date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:13 +1000 Received: from mail by b4114a.chem.uts.edu.au with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14xe6r-00006z-00 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:13 +1000 X-Failed-Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:13 +1000 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unknown local-part "mike.lake" in domain "uts.edu.au" ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <====== Ummmm ? Received: from mikel by b4114a.chem.uts.edu.au with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14xe6r-00006v-00 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:13 +1000 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:13 +1000 From: Mike Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Speleonics: Speleological Consultancy and Electronics Design Sender: Michael Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi -- Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~michael-lake/ Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. *************************************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug