Hi, The pattern you have is: //.*riddler.com/Commonwealth/bin/statdeploy.* //www.taz.net.au/blank_ad.gif
However, on adding printing to your script, I discovered the key came out to be: DEBUG key = //.*riddler.com/commonwealth/bin/statdeploy.* See? the capitalization is lost. I think in sendmail, all input is supposed to be case insensitive. The manual page for makemap says: -f Normally all upper case letters in the key are folded to low er case. This flag disables that behaviour. This is intend ed to mesh with the -f flag in the K line in sendmail.cf. The value is never case folded. I am enclosing the current version of your script that I have hacked; please note the advanced software engineering techniques for debugging, namely, use printf statements ;-) Hope this helps. manoj #!/usr/bin/perl $debug=1 ; use DB_File; use Fcntl; $|=1; $redir_file = 'redir.db' ; tie (%redir_db, 'DB_File', $redir_file, O_RDONLY, 0644, $DB_HASH) || die ("Cannot open $redir_file"); while (<>) { chop ; # Squid gives us: URL ip-address/fqdn ident method ($url, $address, $ident, $method) = /(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)/ ; print STDERR "DEBUG address=$address,ident=$ident,method=$method\n\turl=$url\n"; $out="" ; $found = 0 ; while ((($key,$record) = each %redir_db) && ! $found) { print STDERR "DEBUG \tkey = $key\n"; if ($url =~ m!$key!) { $out = $url ; $out =~ s!$key!$record! ; $found = 1 ; print STDERR "DEBUG out = $out, recrd = $record\n"; } ; } ; if ($debug) { print $url, "==>" ; } ; print $out, "\n\n" ; } untie %redir_db -- "Nat Goldstein and Jim Simmons in Florida, Curtis Beseda out west who has destroyed abortion clinics, these men are looked up to by my arm of the movement as the foremost heroes of the movement ...." James J. Condit, Jr., Cincinnatus Party's perennial candidate for city council, "Mike Cuthbert Show," WCKY_AM, 1/22/87, as quoted in "The Far Right, Speaking For Themselves," a Planned Parenthood pamphlet Manoj Srivastava <url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mobile, Alabama USA <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .