> > Through trial & error, it seems to be impossible to get mail to my
> > macbsd machine at it's own name or IP, even from it's own domain.  Is it
> > still possible to explicitly send a path in a mail header?  e.g.,
> > whoever@hawkins.econ.iastate.edu!iastate.edu or some such?
> 
> Are you running sendmail on your machine?  That is, of course,
> assuming that it has a full-time Net connection...  Otherwise, you
> need a MX host for your machine, and depending on the way you want
> it to be, you need to either run sendmail or receive mail from the
> MX host by POP3 or IMAP.

I think so.  I can send mail within the machine, and to the outside with
no problem.  It's a fulltime connection, though the machine is running
macos some of the time.

rick