Hello Kind Folks, Begun experimenting with procmail BUT have not got anywhere It would be nice if someone could look at my config files my .forward is "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #root" my .procmailrc is VERBOSE=on MAILDIR=$HOME/mail PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.testing INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.maillists my rc.testing is :0: * ^Subject:.*test IN.testing The said directories are in place and the permissions are fine BUT root is not getting any mail with subject test or otherwise - they are all accumulating in /var/spool/mail/mail file (note the extra mail) Thanks in advance Tarique ===================================== B2B Application Service Providers http://www.sanisoft.com The Vortal for Nagpur http://nagpurcity.net ===================================== ---------------------------------------------- The mailing list archives are available at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/LIH