 paul i suspect the best answer is to make the dbm implementation paul configurable via bayescustomize ini with the default being paul anydbm i think you might want to specify the database open function instead of just the module there are three ways to open db files with bsddb btopen hashopen rnopen that will require a little more trickery in URL but not an insane amount skip _______________________________________________ spambayes mailing list spambayes URL URL 