Hello, I've been following this discussion with great interest, and looked (very shortly, I confess) to the tools that were mentioned. I have the impression that they require you to be online to work. Do they still work if you dial up, run fetchmail and hang off immediately via scripts?
OR maybe, do they work simultaneously with fetchmail, so it just makes the phone call some seconds longer? Marco (still living with *one* phone to share with family, and no >56K solution in the neighborood yet...) RULE: Run Up2date Linux Everywhere savannah.gnu.org/projects/rule/ http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/rule/ -- Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination