I messed with this a little too -- it appears that you have to get a message queued for retry later. Lots of sites run with Odbackground in their .cf files and Sendmail will try to fire off a delivery right then and there, using the "ctladdr" it got from the current SMTP session. If you can get a message to queue, though, possibly by CCing to a site that's down, and jam the extra "Croot" or "Cdaemon" or whatever line into the queue file, Sendmail will read and believe this during the next queue run, and turn on stuff like file and program delivery. Euugh. I think that's how it works, anyway. There's an awful lot of hairy code involved in determining the "ctladdr" and whether or not file-syntax or pipe-syntax is legal at what stages, and I don't claim to really understand it. Which is why I tried to jack in fixes at a lower, simpler level. Hmm, this has got me thinking about more fixes already... I see the SMAP aficionados jumping up and down in the back. Has anyone tried jamming this kind of stuff through SMAP yet? I would readily believe that it's possible. _H*