Hi all, I have a laptop with FC5 and wanted to use it as my smtp server and also wanted to receive my logwatch reports each day. the problem is that because all the battle against spam my laptop is no accepted almos anywhere so i start to configure my sendmail server to use an externet smtp server. I followed this steps ___________________________________ Step 4: add to your <a href="http://sendmail.mc">sendmail.mc</a> in /etc: FEATURE(`access_db')dnl FEATURE(`authinfo', `hash /etc/mail/authinfo') define(`SMART_HOST',`outgoing.verizon.net')dnl MASQUERADE_AS(<a href="http://verizon.net">verizon.net</a>)dnl FEATURE(`allmasquerade')dnl FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl FEATURE(genericstable, `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable')dnl GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/genericsdomain')dnl Step 5: copy the entire sendmail build subdirectory sendmail-8-13.2/cf/cf to /usr/share/sendmail-cf/ Step 6: m4 /etc/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf Step 7: add the following lines to the files /etc/mail/access, /etc/mail/authinfo, /etc/mail/genericstable, /etc/mail/genericsdomain access From:ME at <a href="http://verizon.net">verizon.net </a> RELAY authinfo AuthInfo:<a href="http://outgoing.verizon.net">outgoing.verizon.net</a> "U:ME at <a href="http://verizon.net">verizon.net</a>" "I:<MY_VZ_ACCOUNT>" "P:<MY_VZ_PASSWORD>" "M:LOGIN PLAIN" genericstable <MY_LOCAL_NAME> ME at <a href="http://verizon.net">verizon.net</a> genericsdomain localhost.localdomain Step 8: make the db files: makemap hash access.db < access makemap hash authinfo.db < authinfo makemap hash genericstable.db < genericstable Step 9: /etc/init.d/sendmail restart Step 10: test by: > sendmail -bv ME at <a href="http://verizon.net">verizon.net</a> Notice: -bv may give misleading output for non-privileged user ME at verizon.net... deliverable: mailer relay, host <a href="http://outgoing.verizon.net">outgoing.verizon.net </a>, user ME at <a href="http://verizon.net">verizon.net</a> _____________________________ step from 1 to 3 are compiling the sendmail server, mine is already compiled even witch sasl support, ok, once i finished this steps i try to send an email from the console using this mail <a href="mailto:me@yahoo.com">me@yahoo.com</a> it worked since i was logged as my user in my laptop i realized that the emails send by root was not able to go out, and receive a Domain not found error i tried logged as root mail <a href="mailto:me@yahoo.com">me@yahoo.com</a> with no good results, this are the logs at my external smtp server using my user and root. ---------------------- Jul 7 10:01:06 scz postfix/smtpd[16260]: connect from host-65-173-60-214.acelerate.net[<a href="http://65.173.60.214">65.173.60.214</a>] Jul 7 10:01:07 scz postfix/smtpd[16260]: setting up TLS connection from host-65-173-60-214.acelerate.net[<a href="http://65.173.60.214"> 65.173.60.214</a>] Jul 7 10:01:07 scz postfix/smtpd[16260]: TLS connection established from host-65-173-60-214.acelerate.net[<a href="http://65.173.60.214">65.173.60.214</a>]: TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits) Jul 7 10:01:11 scz postfix/smtpd[16260]: 3FFBD4D8300: client=host-65-173-60-214.acelerate.net[<a href="http://65.173.60.214">65.173.60.214</a>], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=ggarron ________________________________________________________ after that is all ok, it is the same as if i configure my thunderbird to use that server, with authentication now loggin as root these are the results. -----------------------Jul 7 10:04:02 scz postfix/smtpd[16275]: connect from host-65-173-60-214.acelerate.net[<a href="http://65.173.60.214">65.173.60.214</a>] Jul 7 10:04:02 scz postfix/smtpd[16275]: setting up TLS connection from host-65-173-60-214.acelerate.net[<a href="http://65.173.60.214"> 65.173.60.214</a>] Jul 7 10:04:03 scz postfix/smtpd[16275]: TLS connection established from host-65-173-60-214.acelerate.net[<a href="http://65.173.60.214">65.173.60.214</a>]: TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits) Jul 7 10:04:06 scz postfix/smtpd[16275]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from host-65-173-60-214.acelerate.net[<a href="http://65.173.60.214">65.173.60.214</a>]: 450 <<a href="mailto:root@t30.alketech.com">root@t30.alketech.com </a>>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found; from=<<a href="mailto:root@t30.alketech.com">root@t30.alketech.com</a>> to=<<a href="mailto:anyuser@yahoo.com">anyuser@yahoo.com</a>> proto=ESMTP helo=<<a href="http://t30.alketech.com"> t30.alketech.com</a>> Jul 7 10:04:07 scz postfix/smtpd[16275]: disconnect from host-65-173-60-214.acelerate.net[<a href="http://65.173.60.214">65.173.60.214</a>] ---------------------------------------- As you can see now it does not authenticate as my user on that server, and is not uses SASL method, not even trying to login can anybody help me please? regards, Guillermo Garron