On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:33:51 EDT, "Okseniak, Edward" said: > I should have described the overall process. We presently build e-mail > messages from a legacy database on our mainframe. Those messages are built > with SMTP commands associated with each message and then forwarded to a SMTP > queue for release to our mail exchange server. These e-mail messages are > created with some personalization associated with each message which makes > it impossible for us to do a mail merge process with ListServ. > > I was hoping that we might be able to process in the same using the > DISTRIBUTE command. We have seen a large increase in the number of e-mail we > process so we're looking to move off of SMTP to some other mail handler.... Right - but Listserv isn't a mail handler - so it's just going to hand it off to whatever IS the mail handler. I'll be more than happy to discuss tuning issues off-list, because it sounds like that's your real problem... /Valdis