George Toft wrote: > > Did you do what John Albee told you to do? > > Try this: > telnet mail.mindspring.com 25 > HELO mindspring.com > MAIL FROM: borgking@mindspring.com > RCPT TO: george@georgetoft.com > DATA > Testing mail using telnet > . > QUIT I just did this with smtp.earthlink.net and it works like a champ.... I tried the above with mail.mindspring.net using borgking's address and mine as RCPT TO: and fairly promptly received : ------ snip ----------- Subject: Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 23:36:45 -0500 (EST) From: borgking@mindspring.com testing mail sending on behalf of borgking this was only a test ------ snip ----------- Everything seems ok with both servers. I use earthlink-dialup through a firewall and smpt.earthlink.net is my usual outgoing mail server (this message included) ...... -- Kevin O'Connor "People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun, such as programming, after spending the necessary ten hours a week on required tasks such as legislation, family counseling, robot repair and asteroid prospecting. There will be no need to be able to make a living from programming." The GNU Manifesto - Copyright (C) 1985, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.