Okay guys, problem solved, with some assistance from a private post. I ended up ditching the script for a rewrite rule in my exim.conf file. All is back to normal. still, it's strange that the script stopped working...oh well. nite! -- -------------------------------------------- ) Mark Wagnon ) mwagnon1@home.com ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( wagnon@rohan.sdsu.edu ( --------------------------------------------