You're right, that solves one of the two problems I have (I was hoping there'd be only one but now it's obvious I was wrong, sigh). I couldn't get the default agent to work so a monk told me a day or two ago to change it to this line, guess that line didn't work either.

The new problem is it's printing all my test messages but still not sending messages to the $destuser . Could this be because I have a real version of AIM open to the $destuser account and I'm trying to connect from command line as a different user?

Thanks for all your help.