I recently blew away Redhat to replace it with Mandrake 9 when I lost 
the fonts or something for the redhat config programs. I find I still 
cannot send mail from the main box, but the laptop (also mandrake 9) is 
ok. I looked at syslog and find this interesting but I don't know what 
it means. BTW, I reformatted the system areas but not /home when I 
re-installed.

 From the syslod on laptop:
Jun 28 06:01:00 carb CROND[28385]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts 
/etc/cron.ho
urly)
Jun 28 06:07:14 carb ntpd[1245]: time reset 8.655991 s
Jun 28 06:07:14 carb ntpd[1245]: synchronisation lost
Jun 28 07:01:00 carb CROND[28421]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts 
/etc/cron.ho
urly)
Jun 28 07:59:03 carb ntpd[1245]: time reset 8.660432 s
Jun 28 07:59:03 carb ntpd[1245]: synchronisation lost
Jun 28 08:01:00 carb CROND[28524]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts 
/etc/cron.ho
urly)
Jun 28 08:06:39 carb gconfd (pete-28547): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 
28547 us
er 'pete'
Jun 28 08:06:40 carb gconfd (pete-28547): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gc
onf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0



And from main:
Jun 28 08:27:16 rotor kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= 
MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:20:e0:36:2f:
02:08:00 SRC=192.168.0.1 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=120 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 
TTL=155
ID=59357 PROTO=UDP SPT=51379 DPT=61112 LEN=100
Jun 28 08:27:22 rotor kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= 
MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:20:e0:36:2f:
02:08:00 SRC=192.168.0.1 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=120 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 
TTL=155
ID=59358 PROTO=UDP SPT=51380 DPT=61112 LEN=100
Jun 28 08:27:28 rotor kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= 
MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:20:e0:36:2f:
02:08:00 SRC=192.168.0.1 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=120 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 
TTL=155
ID=59359 PROTO=UDP SPT=51381 DPT=61112 LEN=100
Jun 28 08:27:34 rotor kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= 
MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:20:e0:36:2f:
02:08:00 SRC=192.168.0.1 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=120 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 
TTL=155
ID=59360 PROTO=UDP SPT=51382 DPT=61112 LEN=100
Jun 28 08:27:40 rotor kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= 
MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:20:e0:36:2f:
02:08:00 SRC=192.168.0.1 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=120 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 
TTL=155
ID=59361 PROTO=UDP SPT=51383 DPT=61112 LEN=100

The error I get when sending mail from main is (mozilla 1.3.1)
Sending of message failed.
An error occurred sending mail: Unable to connect to SMTP server %S. The 
server ........

Now the %S should be the outgoing server right? Is this something that 
got saved in my root or home and that's why the result is the same after 
reloading?

Before I reload and reformat all, I'd like to hear from you if you have 
had any similiar experience.

Thanks
pete