To start off with, if you don't have time to help me with this, I totally understand and will stop bothering you. It's OK - you're not bothering me. I have to admit that, although I have used the MAIL$ API on occasion, I never actually did this before (wrote a MAIL-11 foreign transport protocol). FWIW, the CMU TCP/IP implementation for VMS came with source code and I'm pretty sure it had an SMTP mail gateway. You might look for that. But I see from a recent posting that you've already got what you need. Sounds like you're all set. Bob