Hi, David I know what you mean about attachments. :-) Sort of tongue-in-cheek, but why not write a little Net::POP3 filter all of 10 or 15 lines long that looks at the size of each message on the mailserver, only downloads the ones below a certain size, and sends a nastygram to the authors of the others? :-) Arved ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org