There is a bug in the routine where IMP talks to a SMTP server and sends the content of a mail. In SMTP, a "." on a line by itself ends the DATA portion of the mail. If you create a mail in IMP that contains a "." on a line by itself, the rest of that mail will not be sent, and a "sendmail error 255" is produced. Martin -- This is Unix land. In quiet nights you can hear ms-windows machines reboot.