Your mail program is inserting the > in front of the word From if it begins on a line by itself. That word is used by the mailer to Parse messages (determine the beginning of a mail message) from your mail file. Some mailers automatically stick in the > so that the mail reader program won't start parsing the messsage as a new message when the see the "From" as the first word on a new line. On a sun workstation, the sendmail configuration file is modded to force a placement of the > so the mail reader program won't improperly start a new message. Randy