Hi, meanwhile I did a little testing ... the error in SuSEconfig has nothing to do with the submit.cf file but with the linux.nullclient.cf file ... I did a m4 /etc/mail/linux.nullclient.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf and it gives me exactly the error you are complaining about 'FEATURE() should be before MAILER' ... you only have to set FEATURE(`nocanonify')dnl in front of FEATURE(`nullclient', `mailhub.domain.notused')dnl and the error message disappears ... unfortunately you cannot change it within YAST otherwise he/she/it complains that you changed the mc file ... so the only thing i can recommend you is to set MAIL_CREATE_CONFIG="no" in /etc/sysconfig/mail and run mc4 linux.nullclient.mc by yourself. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang-bang fruit