Paul, I am not an expert, by any means, but the guidance I had gotten on the SMTP_FORWARD's was that too many can be bad also. - Also if you have the luxury of putting your SMTP_FORWARD on a remote host(s) you will be much happier. I have been told web performance will suffer if you have trouble moving your SMTP messages. from your go.usr info: --------------- ... SMTP_FORWARD="localhost" SMTP_FORWARD_1="5*localhost" SMTP_FORWARD_2="5*localhost" ... We use (2) remote smtp servers and run 2-3 smtp helpers to each machine. Good luck, Bill