> test-outgoing: "|/opt/gnu/bin/hypermail -i -u -d /tmp -l \"test archive\"" For posterity's sake (in case someone reads the list archive), I fixed my problem by upgrading to 2.99.54 and switching from escaped double quotes as above to single quotes as below. > test-outgoing: "|/opt/gnu/bin/hypermail -i -u -d /tmp -l 'test archive'" John groenveld@acm.org