Hi, >So . . . if you want to send mail to another user on your box, and >you do not want it to get bounced around on the internet but only >to go into some spool queue somewhere strictly on your local machine, >how do you do it? Sounds very much like an emacs anti-feature. $ mail -s Spammedyspam jdoe <<<"Bacon eggs without the spam" works perfectly on stretch and buster/sid. Can you try that and also mutt? -nik