At home, I read and compose my email with VM in Xemacs. The only problem wiht this from my standpoint is that sometimes it takes a long time to send a message and the emacs will block while the SMTP transaction goes on. So I had the idea of installing sendmail and using envelope masquerading and a smart host (there's a sendmail-address-rewriting HOWTO about how to do this). Then my email would just leave emacs and be slurped up by sendmail, effectively instantaneously, allowing me to progress. Well, the smart-host configuration is working like a champ, but the envelope masquerading isn't. Just doesn't seem to do anything. When I look at mail I send out through sendmail, I just see <my-user-id>@localhost.localdomain I can't find anything in the sendmail doc to explain how to troubleshoot this kind of problem. No options that suggest how to watch a piece of mail enter sendmail and walk through all those rules (and rules and rules and rules....). Anyone have any suggestions? I suppose another alternative would just be to make myself a trusted_user and then have emacs do the envelope masquerading.... Thanks, R