I posted something about this yesterday but i think was rather foggy on details and had words like "novell" and "groupwise" in it so no one paid attention. I have thought a bit more about it and here is the revised situation... The shop I work in is in the process of retiring some old host names. We are working towards shutting down an old mercury mail server and we would like to, along with redirecting any mail coming into that server, notify all senders that the host name/addres has changed. So, basically, we would like to forward all incoming mail to the correct new address(we have these aliases already), and would also like to generate an email to send back to the orginator of the message. This email, in the best of all worlds, would have some information on the hostname change and would also look in our aliases and pull out the correct email address(based on where it was sent to and the alias that corresponds to it) so that the user can easily update their address book. Anyone have ideas? I figure we would just tack a pointer to a script onto the alias and have that script do all the work; that way the mail gets forwarded and another copy goes to the mail processing script. My only problem is I am unsure of what scripting language I should use (procmail?) and if reading the alias file will be possible. Anyone know of a pre-built script which will do this? Thanks... ____________________________ Mike Neuharth ADCS Technology Specialist http://www.umn.edu/adcs E-Mail : mjn at umn.edu Page Mail : 6126486512 at page.metrocall.com http://nifty.dsl.visi.com/ ____________________________