Granted. [I *never* get any of that sort of mail, so I chose to err on the side of caution.] You could probably take out the check for "/" and use the _PATH_ARCHIVE thing to restrict where files can go. Or you can scrap Lotus Noise and buy Sales_1/Joe_Dweeb a real mailer. Does any addressing use "|"? I remember various Multics-flavored things used ">", but that would probably break nowadays with the way sendmail parses <address> unless it was quoted... "Be liberal in what you reject for security reasons" _H*