Thanks for that. "remotehost.com" is actually hotmail.com with all the
test-emails I've tried. It dosen't work either with this email account
(skotlowy at bigpond.net.au). Same result, Deferred: Connection timed out
with bigpond.net.au. The physical connection is an ADSL modem with NAT
configured so the BSD box can be seen on the internet.

I knotice that doing a tcpdump after sending an email to hotmail.com sends
packets to lc2.bay0.hotmail.com 25. I try to telnet to this myself and it
times out. Perhaps sendmail is relaying email to the wrong address?

Here's my configuration files at the moment:

sendmail.mc
divert(-1)
divert(0)

OSTYPE(freebsd4)
DOMAIN(generic)
MAILER(local)
MAILER(smtp)

DAEMON_OPTIONS(Port=smtp, Addr=127.0.0.1, MTA)

access:
localhost RELAY
127.0.0.1 RELAY
mycomputer RELAY
mycomputer.domain.org RELAY

all other files are default.

mycomputer.domain.org has been changed, the real domain name is registered
with www.dyndns.com.

Thanks

> This,
>
>   cd /etc/mail
>   makemap hash access < access
>
> will create the file "/etc/mail/access.db" that the default NetBSD
> installation is looking for (from "/etc/mail/access"). However, if you
> have mail in the queue, that means it's already been accepted, so the
> access database doesn't enter into it. How's your network connectivity
> to "remotehost.com"?  Is there a firewall in the way?
>
> Frederick