note ishamael it should be noted that sendmail (all versions, to my knowledge) ignores flock.<br> just blatently ignores it if you flock an mbox.<br> however, it does recognize its own locking system, which consists of a mboxname.lock file in the same directory as the mbox. <br> this does create problems with write access and such, and is just a horrible workaround in my opinion, however will work fine. <br> <br>charlie schmidt<br> ishamael@themes.org<br> www.diablonet.net/~ishamael/<br> 7058 7058