The main new feature of confirm 1.2.6 is a check of the given email address for conformity to RFC822. The most requirements of RFC822 are matched, one exception are addresses with the local part in double qotes (I never heard about a need for it). If someone sends an invalid address like bla;user@dom.com an error message is send back and no subscription or cookie creation happens. On the other hand addresses with uncommon characters in the local part (*+#?%$) are allowed. confirm 1.2.6 is available at ftp://ftp.pure.ch/pub/smartlist/ Werner