Hi, I posted this message yesterday and got a few responses. Thanks. Sendmail still refuses to load because it will not read local-host-users and trusted-users in /etc/mail with the message "Could not read trusted-users with Worldwide readable directory" I have tried all the following permissions but none work. /etc/mail 0755 (default) 0400, 0700, 0600 and owner root.root files 0744 (default), 0400, 0700 owner root.root Nothing works. The error message remains the same. Surely everyone who installed Fedora must have had this problem? The files and file / directory permissions come from the packages. I never changed them at fiirst. I simply installed everything. Also Redhat 9 has the same file persmissions and no problems with sendmail. Thanks, Rob -- Robert Key Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Peninsula Technikon robkey@xxxxxxxxxxxx