Sorry for not quoting the pertinent text but fighting a firewall blockage at the moment.... Any chance that some recursive chmod'ing has been done on your system? Doublecheck the permissions and ownership of /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail > # ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root smmsp 774264 May 6 2005 /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail To fix you can do: chown root:smmsp /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail chmod 2755 /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail HTH, --Rob