You may be missing the spool file. Some programs manage to create the file, while others complain and fail to create it if it is missing. If you find that the file doesn't exist touch the file and then change its ownership. You will want the owner to be the username and the group to be mail. In order the commands are: touch username chown username.mail ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.