> The second (bigger) problem is setting up the server so I can use e-mail > clients such as Netscape or Outhouse. The real trick (I'm sure it's > turned off by default) is that the people using POP/SMTP clients will be > all over the internet so I can't filter by IP addresses. I know, I'm > opening up a very nice SPAM relay but there's no good way around it that I > can tell. What do I have to do to get Sendmail to accept connections from > SMTP/POP e-mail clients? if you can't restrict the range of IPs, you need to look at setting up some sort of SMTP authentication. cyrus-sasl is the package we commonly use for that task here; but I'm hardly an expert on it, and other people would have to fill you in on the details of setting it up. most clients built recently, support SMTP authentication. Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700