Nope... That's the really screwy thing. It's forwarding all mail in the VM spool whether it belongs to that person or not. If a person does not have forwarding set up in LISTSERV's FORWARD FILE then no action is taken, if a person has forwarding set-up in the FORWARD FILE then reactivating the forwarding on any account is pushing the mail on to the designated addresses. Until we come up with what's doing this, I've set-up a PUSHMAIL EXEC that deactivates and then resets the forwarding on a dummy account. We'll have VM autolog the account every fifteen minutes or so to activate PUSHMAIL. It's working, but I'd still like to know how to fix it more 'officially'. --Garrie Bill Verity <[log in to unmask]> on 03/14/2001 10:07:39 AM Please respond to LISTSERV give-and-take forum <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] cc: (bcc: Garrie Burr/Systems/ais) Subject: Re: forwarding emergency At 8:55 AM -0600 3/14/01, Garrie Burr wrote: >We've used the 'TELL LISTSERV /FORWARD emailaddress' command for the last few >years to forward incoming mail from a person's old account on our VM System >(where listserve resides) to their new email account on a different system. >... >What happens next: Not only is their mail forwarded on, but we find that all >the other mail on our VM System that hadn't been forwarded ALSO gets forwarded >on to where it had previously been designated to go in the FORWARD FILE. >... I assume you mean all the other mail for *this* particular person, right? That's how forwarding works. Periodically, listserv transfers all the mail from the person's reader and sends it on the the address specified in the FORWARD FILE file. -- -- Why is "abbreviated" such a long word? Why isn't "phonics" spelled the way it sounds? Bill Verity - 814-865-4758 Fax: 814-863-7049 215A Computer Building - Center for Academic Computing, Penn State University At the office - on my Mac, of course ;-)