When starting LISTSERV with an Access database as the DBMS source, you are most likely seeing errors like > DBMS: ACCESS (3.5 Jet)as no ESCAPE clause, errors will occur! > Multi-row operations are unavailable > Cursor behaviour limits ability to commit before logical close > [SEVERE] '=' operator is case-insensitive, results may be incorrect! > [FATAL] LIKE operator has no ESCAPE clause, errors will occur! > [SEVERE] FOR UPDATE clause not supported, no locking will occur This error: > [FATAL] LIKE operator has no ESCAPE clause, errors will occur! in particular militates against using an Access DBMS table as a DBMS list source. In fact the documentation says that this error "makes the DBMS unusable as a data store for LISTSERV lists. However, if you only plan to use the DBMS for mail-merge jobs, this restriction may be immaterial as LISTSERV will only be executing the SQL statements that you provide in the mail-merge job." Bottom line is that we don't support Access as a DBMS for DBMS lists. Nathan