thank you all for this information. was away from email for the day and came back to find all the help! yes! N On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > The traditional Unix tool for this job is procmail[1]. > > procmail++ That cool little email filter thing was the core of my Mr. > Serials Process "way back" in 1994 or so. And it still works great! The > syntax of its recipes is a bit obtuse, but still… --ELM > -- Nate Hill [log in to unmask] http://4thfloor.chattlibrary.org/ http://www.natehill.net