Hi John, thanks for your help. I created the certificates the way you explained it. Now, I tried to send email with it. I started saslauthd, and when I try to send mail, I get the following error:

May 7 16:10:32 parsley sendmail[25145]: no secret in database May 7 16:10:32 parsley sendmail[25145]: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file or directory

What does that mean? I also tried to switch the authentification method in /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd from "pam" to "shadow". After SuSEconfig and restarting all demons, I still get the same error. What can I do? Thanks a lot once more. Best Regards, Gordon.