Dear Bruce, Carlos & Jerry Thank you all for your help - i now have a working mail system delivering mail for both myself and my wife (she is very happy). I apologise for any confusion and hope that the previous emails were a good natured discussion !!!. I will try to cler up a few things: 1. I was running fetchmail as root 2. When i wanted to get procmail running i looked a Togan's FAQ and uncommented the mailbox_command line and added the path to procmail as he suggested. 3. When i did this the comments above this line said that if i wanted to use this to deliver mail system wide i had to alias root - which i did to Tim. 4. I then entered my recipe in /etc/procmailrc 5. I got all sorts of strange messages as you saw. What i did to solve this was: 1. Run fetchmail as Tim 2. Add Jerry's line about mda procmail to my procmailrc 3. Get the output written directly to /var/spool/mail/whoever. So once again thank you all for your help. I now move on to my next problem, Tim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com