Hi, I'm looking through the suse docs and one of them is a script which checks mail via fetchmail on a regular basis. To make sure that things were generally working and configured right, I set up a file /root/.fetchmailrc and ran it and it worked like a charm. Now I get to the script. It says this: case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting fetchmail-daemon" /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900 -a -f /etc/fetchmailrc -L /var/log/fetchmail 2>&1 || return=$rc_failed echo -e "$return" ;; stop) echo -n "Shutting down fetchmail-daemon" /usr/bin/fetchmail -quit || return=$rc_failed echo -e "$return" ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}" exit 1 esac exit 0 And then it says this: The file to which the -f option points must be the .fetchmailrc of the user who has to fetch the mail. Hmmm. I suppose I'm asking is root the user who has to fetch the mail? Right now it has me at /root/.fetchmailrc, bu the script which suse provides asks me to "edit /etc/fetchmailrc" (I suppose with the same information about users, passwords and procmail) - but is that being run as ROOT or as USER? (You all know that the next questions will be about procmail and spastic!!) TIA, Nick