Jason, If this is important to you, check out using your W2K pro or WXP machines SMTP relay and use it to send the mail.. It can send directly out of it to the destin server.. Since you are a CCNP I am sure you are most likely running a firewall of some kind and little risk of you having an open relay. If you have questions catch me offlist.. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Jason Slagle [mailto:raistlin@tacorp.net] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 10:48 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Bellsouth clueful? Anyone at bellsouth home that can provide some insite (mostly eta) on the email-server outage going on. I tried the normal paths: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <noc@bellsouth.net> (reason: 550 Invalid recipient: <noc@bellsouth.net>) I have loved ones overseas, and rumor has it they could send email. Bellsouth needs to get this fixed ASAP. Jason -- Jason Slagle - CCNP - CCDP /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign . X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . / \ - NO Word docs in e-mail .