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Can you give me a rundown on how your mail forwarding system works? I tried to alias a friend, Barrie, with Barrie ve3aoi@ve3oy. Then in my rewrite file I have *@ve3oy ve3oy. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work when I use sp barrie. If I use sp ve3aoi@ve3oy then everything works and the mail is delivered to ve3oy. It looks like the alias file is scanned but the rewrite file is not?? Any ideas? Steve