what are you using for email?

atlast i got some reply........lemme put it this way, i can use any kinda email provided i get out of this problem.......i have a brief idea of using different clients..........

If you are using outlook, you can simply use the import wizard in outlook to extract the information from the database into a contacts folder

did you say you're using the pine email client? if so.. that'll be an intresting solution to information from a remote database to the to: cc: or bcc: fields, look through your pine help manual it might have some information there, but i do not no the database connection strings for nix based techs, but im telling you you'd be better of jsut have a text document (basic) with an email address on each line and calling it from that, i know ive seen how to do this in the Sams Unix in 24 hours or whatever it's called book, for calling from a document, and it's not too difficult for single entries (as far as my experience with pine goes) and im sure more wouldn't be difficult

infact here is your answer

http://computing.arizona.edu/help/em...dressbook.html