If anyone has some quick advice, I would appreciate it. I am helping a friend who uses Slackware with sendmail convert from an ISP who does not require authentication for outgoing mail to using verizon.net, which does require authentication. Aside from abandoning sendmail, what else should I do? I solved this problem for myself once and had to install cyrus-sasl and recompile sendmail with an option to use that library. Is that still the path to follow? The user is only interested in using sendmail to ship outgoing to a smart host at verizon.net. Any tips or shortcuts will be appreciated. Chuck -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (52% of Full) But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh