Thanks for the sendmail tip guys. Now the 2nd q was the more urgent one and still is. How on earth do you edit cofigurations in Asterisk. (na.. am not talking thru your fav editor). Like say a web application wants to add an exten, or change the forwarding of some extension, etc. all this cannot be done manually. If I am repeating these questions, please point me to the posts where these qs have been answered. Goddamn urgent!! me almost sweating..... :-) Thanks Ben.