On Fri, 12 Feb 93 19:13:45 EST you said: >I don't think that is the case on my side. I can send my either PROFS or >RICE mail to Internet directly from all userids. But my LISTSERV can ONLY send >mail through BITNET. No mater it is a Internet address. ... That's because LISTSERV does more than just dump the mail distribution to your MAILER. If your mailer is configured to use the local SMTP as the Bitnet/Internet gateway for all Internet mail, fine. But that only means mail it receives will be treated that way. Since LISTSERV uses it's own distribution mechanism for bundling mail together and sending it to the proper destinations, my guess is that your MAILER never gets to look at the mail. It's forwarded across the LISTSERV backbone to whatever gateway is responsible (as per DOMAIN NAMES as described in my previous note) for that Internet domain. So in other words, both LISTSERV and MAILER (whichever one your using) need to be told to use your local SMTP if you want to send mail directly to Internet hosts. It sounds like your MAILER already uses a nodified DOMAIN NAMES, you just need to do something similar for your LISTSERV. >Thank you a lot for your response, John. Is there any other suggestions? Just one final point I suppose. When I said, >> ... So, I'd suggest only overriding the entries that >> route traffic to INTERBIT. That way, your local SMTP will handle all >> Internet mail for domains not explicitly listed in DOMAIN NAMES. I meant for both your MAILER and your LISTSERV. But I doubt that opinion is shared by everyone. -jj