Thanks for the help.  It seems to work now, or at least I'm not getting
any error messages when I send mail now!  I did not know what the whole
name of the mail server was, so I guess it was just trying to use the
internal mail.  Hoo boy, I guess I need to start compiling all of this
stuff into a How-To, like Tony suggested.

Gene 

"David R. Kucharski" wrote:
> 
> I'm using Comcast@home through windows, but I noticed in
> THEIR setup on my machine that the mail server is called
> only "mail" when in reality it should be
> mail.indpdnce1.mo.home.com or something like that - you can
> check the full viewing of headers to get the exact
> location.  Have you tried changing the server name to your
> FULL server address so as not to confuse the boxes with mail
> and the internal mail delivery for your network?
> 
> just a thought - I'm far short of enough of an expert to
> even attempt a cable connection or even a home network yet.
> Still a newbie! but you might find that that's a place to
> start.
> 
> Dave