Thanks to all for your fast replies.

We don't have our own DNS, we use our ISP's one to validate/resolve email
addresses.

Looks as if we are going to have to use DNS Bind/iX on the 3000 and pass
unknown requests to our ISP's DNS. We've commented out the nameserver
entries in RESLVCNF file and have turned off NetMail until Bind/iX is up and
running. At the moment we are only using NetMail as a backup for our M$ mail
server so that's OK.

Special thanks go to:

  Ted (Ashton) for reminding me that most HP manuals are available online.

  Rich (Roemer) for a print of the resolv.conf man page from his U*ix box.
  Couldn't find the Posix one on our 3000, wonder where it is?

regards,
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