Many thanks for your reply...

I am currently trying to find out the server version information although I am not able to get in touch with the relevant people.

I will be able to tell you what I know and update the information as soon as I am able to find it out.

The Domino and the BES server are both in Belgium although they are separate servers.. in different locations from what I gather and they have a set replication

Our notes setting in the UK are all set to local replication and use the mailuk\****.nsf and the we use the names.nsf file for the address as well

I do not know how to explain what I am about to type but hopefully this will make sense..

While in your workspace opening a database will it matter where the nsf mail file is stored what i mean is...

-SERVER
mailcz
maileu
mailuk-->users mailbox

If you open the mailbox and set the mailbox for a local replica will it need to be in a mailuk\users mailbox.nsf (sub folder in the lotus notes directory)

or can it just be in the ...\data folder eg ..lotus\data\users mailbox

I do not know if this has made any sense at all hopefully you can see what I am asking.

I will try and findout the additional information ASAP... Many thanks for you reply

Regards
Brendan Rouse