Hi all, My plan is to use spamassassin to get rid of the 10 or so junkmails I get per day. I have six different pop accounts, for personal, business, and various different mail lists, all being checked by evolution. I got fetchmail so far to download messages and deliver to my /var/mail/*user* and have evolution pick it up there. This wasn't easy though. I first tried (as normal user) to just: # fetchmail but was told to specifiy a server/mailbox. I then did: # fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc and was told I'm not allowed to read the file. I then copied the /etc/fetchmailrc file to my home dir and chown-ed it to my user. Then did: # fetchmail -f ~/fetchmailrc This worked. Adding a "-d 60 -N" and leaving it in a console in the background made sure I'm getting anything that comes in while I'm online. I read in /usr/share/doc/packages/fetchmail/README.SuSE how to set fetchmail up as a service. When I did all that and do: $ /etc/init.d/fetcmail start I get: /etc/init.d/fetchmail: line 20: /etc/rc.config: No such file or directory I searched, and sure enough, there is no such file on my hard drive (SuSE 8.2). I commented the relevant line out of the /etc/init.d/fetchmail script, and now it starts without moaning. Is this good, though? Removing that line? What is it supposed to do? Some more questions: Also, is it better/safer to run fetchmail as user, seeing as this is a single user computer? If so, is it possible to run fetchmail as a service, but as a user at startup, so I don't have to invoke it by hand every time I want to check mail? I'm not sure how fetcmail does this, but all the mail clients I've used, download a list of all the mail on the pop server, then download them all, then delete them all from the server. With a not too stable dial-up connection, and sometimes a couple of hundred messages at a time, I'd like it to go: download message 1 delete message download message 2 delete message 2 ect... Is this possible? Last question: If I have fetchmail running as a service, as user, all is working well, and it is checking mail every now and then, is there a way to see it's progress when it's downloading a large number at a time? A gui tool of some sorts that keeps and eye on fetchmail and reports what it's doing? Thanks H