> This seems to imply that po.muohio.edu is a separate system that actually > holds mail. I was under the impression that it was just a mail server that po.muohio.edu. 3600 CNAME stream.mcs.muohio.edu. stream.mcs.muohio.edu. 3600 A 134.53.7.12 In other words: po.muohio.edu = the vax cluster = miavx1 > By pointing Eudora to MiaVX1 (i.e., entering my account there in the POP > account field), am I not taking advantage of POP3 services? And what Same as po.muohio.edu > exactly is mailfwd.muohio.edu (which I have set as my SMTP host)? I guess mailfwd.muohio.edu. 3600 CNAME rose.muohio.edu. rose.muohio.edu. 3600 A 134.53.1.1 That old computer still takes care of sending all your mail when you turn off your computer if it can't be delivered. Kind of like handing your mail to a postman to deliver because you have to go to bed. You stop worrying about it, and he takes care of getting the mail there -- George Greer [log in to unmask] | Genius may have its limitations, but http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~greerga | stupidity is not thus handicapped. Dragon System Administrator | -- Elbert Hubbard