I am working on a new project on 386BSD with pseudonymous user ID's. What I want to do is use a rule in the /etc/sendmail.cf file to make all messages to "anon.###" be processed by the anonymous contact service and everything else to be processed as local mail. I added the following lines to my configuration file and made a new frozen config file, but I keep having trouble getting it to work: Ranon.$- $#acs$:anon.$1 Macs, P=/usr/guest/anon/anon-reply, F=nlF, S=10, R=20, A=anon-reply $u The first line should make all mail directed to "anon.*" be processed by the mailer "acs." The second should define a mailer named acs that executes anon-reply. I found that this would make it impossible to alias anon.post, anon.admin, anon.ping, anon.help, etc. So, I changed the first line to: Ranon.[0-9]$- $#acs$:anon.$1 That makes newaliases stop bitching about the aliases, but any mail directed to an anon.### account bounces and it says "User unknown." I ignored the alias problem once and actually got it to get farther, where it said "Unknown mailer error 2." I think that's because it was using /bin/sh instead of /bin/csh which is required for the scripts that I got from a friend. (acs2.2 is what I got, it was used for alt.personals) I want to rewrite it, but the important part is getting the aliasing to work. The rest is a piece of cake once I can get sendmail do to this. I hate to rebuild my alias database, besides which, that slows down ALL mail. If anyone knows which RFC's to look at for the sendmail.cf format or has experience with this problem, I would be eternally grateful. Chael Hall -- Chael Hall nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu, 00CCHALL@BSUVC.BSU.EDU (317) 285-3648 after 5 pm EST