Henry: Thanks for lending a hand with my little mystery. #1. I beleive the * represents an executable command. At least in Mac OS X Unix parlance. #2. > Wouldn't a Sendmail Consortium sendmail binary be _at least_ twice > that size? Does your system have some kind of "/etc/mailer.conf" > file that directs the system to where the "real" binary resides? /etc/mailer.conf does not exist. Hm bj