Ok for all of you asking which are the 3 here is the count down: Number 3 - The SMTP DEBUG problem. Anyone can telnet to your SMTP port and read any file on the system. Fixed by adding -smtp_debug in your smail config file. Number 2 - The .forward problem. Another configuration problem. Smail does not check file atributes when delivering mail to a file pointed to by a .forward. Fixed by adding the check_path attribute to the forward file director. and Number 1 - Debug file bug. Smail create or append to anyfile using the debug options! There. What I said will fix #1 and #2. Several different patches have been posted for #3 on usenet. Check comp.mail.smail and the comp.is.linux.* newsgroups. Also the maintainers of smail will fixed RSN. a1 http://dfw.net/~aleph1