Hello everyone, Thanks once again for coming forward to help me with the copying of messages in at the smtp gateway, using synonym or postfix configuration settings. I hav a few more things to ask u guys : 1) How can i use MySQL in a shell script? I wanna enter some values in some tables in MySQl through the shell prompt only. I need to enter these values, at the shell prompt, using the username and password, without entering the sql prompt explicitly, is this possible? is there any one line command like e.g in ncftp, where i can specify the username, password, the values etc, all in the smae command line? 2)CAn u guys specify me some place where i can find some detailed info on Synonym and its working,?? the documentation on its homepage is pathetic for a new user like me. 3)Is there any method, on Linux, with which i can index a text or mail message on the basis of keywords? actually i think, indexing email messages on basis of keywords would be a very helpful feature to use at the time of retrieval and so i want to include it in my solution, although i have tested MAIRIX, but all it does is, take an mbox, index it and create a data base file, and when u ask it to search, it gives out the messages which contain the keyword used as a basis of search. 4)How do u people know so much about so many things? CAn u describe ur strategy , where u get all this info and how do u remember it for extended periods of time? So, many questions in one mail, i fear, someone of u will surely flame out on me, but please try to understand, i myself am taking my first steps into this wonderful world of Unix/Linux and am finding out a lot o new things, just recently i read Maurice.J.Bach about Unix internals and i wanna start on Linux kernel now, and i hope in a few months, i will also be helping some of the guys her in my own small way. Wish me good luck fr my endeavors. Warm regards, Sushant __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com