I am unable to reply to the message to maintain the thread, but to answer Andy's questions I am getting my e-mail from a pop server. My ISP is Mediaone. Here is my fetchmailrc file: server pop.mn.mediaone.net protocol pop3 username xxxxxxx password xxxxxx mda procmail I have set procmail to verbose and I can see that it is processing each message and sorting them to the rules in the procmailrc file. Here is some of my procmailrc file: VERBOSE = yes LOGABSTRACT = all MAILDIR= /home/john PMDIR=$HOME/Procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log :0: * ^TO_tclug $MAILDIR/TCLub :0: * ^TO_php-general $MAILDIR/PHPGeneral .... and there are others, but this should give you an idea of what I am trying to do. To retrieve my mail, I just type fetchmail. Thanks, John Miller