Hi, When there is not reverse for the hostname, the gethostbyname return NULL. There is no check of the return value in the function hostnamestr() (strgen:144). Because of the SIGSEGV generated, the normal might not working. Here you can find a patch, the hostname is used in the HELO part. It might be interesting to specify the hostname in the config, for the moment, I had a patch that use the non reversed hostname if the hostnamestr return NULL. Under Slakware, the hostname command return the first part of the FQDN hostname. Benoit -- Benoit DOLEZ GSM: +33 6 21 05 91 69 mailto:bdolez@ant-computing.com