I try to match inside sift ... tfis a pattern foo ([something]) .. where ( and [ are literals. I don't get it to work. Any ideas? (and yes, it's the ``rcvdfrom'' token from envelopeinfo) Regards and Thanks! Armin <ftp-admin@leo.org> ____ Armin Gruner, Technische Universitaet, Muenchen \ / http://www.leo.org/~gruner/ \/ Nur wer sich aendert, bleibt sich treu - Wolf Biermann