hi, i expect, that a mail send to listname-REQUEST@xxx will go to the owners of this named list. indeed the sender gets the mail back Your message to xxxxx-request@yyyy has been forwarded to the "list owners" (the people who manage the xxxxx list). however in the log i see : 25 Jan 2005 11:57:37 Processing file 27163708 from [log in to unmask] 25 Jan 2005 11:57:37 From [log in to unmask]: X-ADMMAIL xxxxx-REQUEST user@.... 25 Jan 2005 11:57:37 Sent information mail to user@.... and no mail is being send to the owner(s). any ideas ? -ulrich- ps: (still) running 1.8e on windows-2003 with lsmtp