Only minutes ago, I wrote:

2) Use a mud client (or similar) instead of kermit to connect to the remote system. Sending mail is then done by using the usual commands to get the remote system into the mailer line editor and then using a client macro of some sort to sign, transfer and send a message prepared locally. This solution will require some programming (very little on Linux, maybe quite a bit on a MacIntosh).

Heck, you can even program all that in kermit script programs. (I have version 5A(170) here.) It's just that these programs look (incredibly) ugly. Pierre Uszynski pierre@shell.portal.com