The access file is aptly named as its purpose is to control access to the sendmail daemon. It is used both to allow and deny relay access. Here are some examples of what the file's entries may look like: localhost.localdomain RELAY localhost RELAY 127.0.0.1 RELAY 192.168.1.1 RELAY 10.0.0.6 RELAY baddomain.net 550 Mail from your domain is denied 192.168.1.10 550 Internet mail may not be sent from this host.LelandJ