(Mostly for) Jeremy, Thanks for the pointers on sendmail which is decidedly NOT my area of expertise. I don't plan on doing a lot of these kinds of mailings but it'll be nice to clean up that "wart", nonetheless. As for the "mail" program, I presumed the behavior I am seeing is a security feature (of sorts). Other than through command line options, it doesn't appear that "mail" will let the user muck-about with the header lines. To verify this, I ran a test. Here's the command I tried( as per your earlier suggestion): ( echo "Reply-To: " ; echo "Subject: whatever" ; echo ; \ echo "This is the body of the message" ) | mail eskinner And below here is the received message (with "> " inserted before each line). Note the TWO (2) empty (except for "> " lines, the first of which signals the end of the header. The "Reply-To" and "Subject" lines (from the typed command above) come after that break, and fall in the body of the message. Not what I want. > From eskinner@gort.rytetyme.com Fri Apr 18 14:49:57 2003 > Return-Path: > Received: from gort.rytetyme.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) > by gort.rytetyme.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h3ILnv5E031707 > for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:49:57 -0700 > Received: (from eskinner@localhost) > by gort.rytetyme.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id h3ILnvfO031705 > for eskinner; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:49:57 -0700 > Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:49:57 -0700 > From: Ed Skinner > Message-Id: <200304182149.h3ILnvfO031705@gort.rytetyme.com> > To: eskinner@gort.rytetyme.com > Status: R > X-Status: N > > Reply-To: > Subject: whatever > > This is the body of the message > > But to agree with you, I remember that I *used* to be able to do this on System V Unix. In fact, that was my first attempt on Linux but, as you can see, it doesn't give the desired effect. Regardless, sendmail is giving me a "good enough" solution now and, with your pointers, should be able to go all the way. Again, thanks for the help! -- Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/