Hi, I try to configure the fqdn part of messageid the messageid, which is provided to the clients. This is necessary, because the real fqdn is pointed to a name in out local network. Here the output of the newsserver, when I want to post an article: --snip-- Trying 10.252.104.32... Connected to news-proxy. Escape character is '^]'. 201 news.datev.de InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.3.4 ready (no posting). authinfo user username 381 PASS required authinfo pass password 281 Ok post 340 Ok, recommended ID --snip-- I want to overwrite the FQDN "L32690.internal.domain.local" to news.datev.de Is it possible to do that, so the MessageIDs look somthing like: bm65uu$dug$1@news.datev.de ? -- Gruß Dieter -- I do not get viruses because I do not use MS software. If you use Outlook then please do not put my email address in your address-book so that WHEN you get a virus it won't use my address in the