Here's the big picture: The user chooses to send a bunch of messages to an alias that will later post everything onto a webboard. Instead of sending each mail separate, the user can drag and drop all da mail files he wants posted or any original email he writes into the folder *temp*. THe script I was asking for help on, will then go through the folder and "forward" each piece of mail to the alias. I wanted this "Forwarding" step to be automatic.

I'm not sure what you mean by *forks*. If this is a more efficient process than the script, could you please tell me how to set this up?

Lastly, someone mentioned that all messages in a mailbox is kept in one file. Does the code you posted earlier allow each message to be grabbed from the one index file and sent out separately?

thanks for the help.

jc

PS I will go back and clean up the variables and formatting. I pulled that portion of it out of a larger context.