However a suitable equivalent may not exist (for free) >for the mac. I'm looking into this myself, but there is MondoMail from Acme: http://www.acmetech.com/ which I have used with Applescript & Perl with great sucess. whether it can handle, or whether we can *make* it handle the calls made to sendmail in Majordomo, I know not at this point in time. the only alternative that would not rely of another piece of software would be a dive into the socket level of things Perl, which might be a 'better' (read: more portable) way to go about this. as I say, I'm just starting playing around with this now, so more news as it comes in, as they say. a ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch