Ok, I know I can use the built in filters of netscape and solve the whole thing that way, but I want to be difficult. Anyway, when using procmail, to filter messages to the folders I want, then viewing the messages via netscape messenger. I have noticed that if you don't compact the folders afterwords, you will in a sense receive the messages again next time procmail moves another message for you. For example, I get 4 messages in the morning, I read them and delete them. In the afternoon I get 3 more, but when I view the folders, the original 4 are there as well due to the fact that the folders arn't compacted after the original messages were read and deleted. So, what I'm trying to figure out is a way to have the messages actually gone the next time I get messages short of deleteing the mail files that the messages reside in. Anyone have any ideas or notice this situation as well?? -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - http://www.primenet.com/~tomas S.u.S.E. Linux v6.1+ - Kernel 2.2.10 Hand, n.: A singular instrument worn at the end of a human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"