When you respond to that email address in your Hotmail account, what email address is it? Is the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Does your machine always have the same IP address? For example... I can send an email to my machine directly, since it always has the same IP address, and it has a name that can be resolved. Does your machine have at least the first of those? It sounds like it would accept email, if only the Internet knows how to get to your machine. So try sending email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If that doesn't go through then that's not where your machine is most likely. Mandrake out of the box is set up to accept that traffic. tdh -- T. Holmes ----------------- UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------- "Real Men Us Vi!" | Hi all | I finaly after a long bad day got mandrake up and running properly on my server | i installed 7.2 the web server is perfect | postfix is doing its job (i can send email using an account on my server to another |accont say hotmail for example | but if i say use hotmail to send email to a email address that is on the server i |wont get it for some reason | it dont give any errors when my client looks for email it seems to go threw fine |just comes up with no new messages yet i did send a few from diferent address to test |out | | so in summary | i made an account now using a seperate windows computer i can send email using OE |with postfix (say to a hotmail account) | i then receive the email in the hotmail account but if i reply i will never get the |reply with the account on my server but it does check for new messages cause it dotn |give errors | | thanks for the help | | | Luc ------------------------------------------------------------------
