Thanks guy! Regards, alydmc From: pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com man (8) pw pw useradd qscand -s /sbin/nologin From: brian at brianwhalen.net What do you have in /etc/rc.conf, I have spamd_enable="YES" spamd_flags="-u spamd -H /var/spool/spamd" In my case, the spamd user got created automagically.