Hi yeah I did that and it cam back at teh time and it came back with a response as follows: [root@server ~]# nslookup <a href="http://googlemail.com">googlemail.com</a> ;; reply from unexpected source: 192.168.1.1#2048 , expected 192.168.1.1#53 Server: <a href="http://192.168.1.1">192.168.1.1</a> Address: 192.168.1.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: <a href="http://googlemail.com">googlemail.com</a> Address: <a href="http://66.249.91.83">66.249.91.83</a> As for google mail accepting mail from root they do, I use it all the time on my server, good for denyhosts ;) <div>On 27/05/07, Tim <<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 17:46 +0100, Paul Ward wrote: > > When sending mails I get the following error and the mail is not sent: > > May 26 17:31:46 server postfix/pickup[3024]: 4D3B7B79CC: uid=0 > from=<root> > May 26 17:31:46 server postfix/cleanup[3029]: 4D3B7B79CC: message-id=< > <a href="mailto:20070526163146.4D3B7B79CC@server.localdomain">20070526163146.4D3B7B79CC@server.localdomain</a> > > May 26 17:31:46 server postfix/qmgr[3025]: 4D3B7B79CC: > from=<<a href="mailto:root@server.localdomain">root@server.localdomain</a>>, size=495, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > May 26 17:31:56 server postfix/smtp[3031]: 4D3B7B79CC: > to=<<a href="mailto:pnward@googlemail.com">pnward@googlemail.com</a>>, relay=none, delay=10, delays= 0.38/0/10/0, > dsn=4.4.3, status=deferred (Host or domain name not found. Name > service error for name= <a href="http://googlemail.com">googlemail.com</a> type=MX: Host not found, try > again) That sounds, simply, like it cannot resolve <a href="http://googlemail.com">googlemail.com</a> (going by the last bit of information). Try looking it up, on that PC, manually. e.g. [tim@serge ~]$ nslookup <a href="http://googlemail.com">googlemail.com</a> Server: <a href="http://192.168.1.2">192.168.1.2</a> Address: 192.168.1.2#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: <a href="http://googlemail.com">googlemail.com</a> Address: <a href="http://66.249.91.83">66.249.91.83</a> Name: <a href="http://googlemail.com">googlemail.com</a> Address: <a href="http://72.14.205.83"> 72.14.205.83</a> Name: <a href="http://googlemail.com">googlemail.com</a> Address: <a href="http://72.14.253.83">72.14.253.83</a> Additionally, I'd be very surprised if googlemail would accept a message alleging to have come from <<a href="mailto:root@server.localdomain">root@server.localdomain</a>>. Most mail servers will only accept mail coming from valid domain names. Perhaps that's the "Host not found" issue with that failure message. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </a> </blockquote></div>