The imapd spec has a provision for an alert pop-up of any ASCII text message contained in /etc/imapd.alert on the IMAP server. Can I assume this is implemented on DC? It'd be real nice if in addition to the current all-users message, it was possible to do a per-user alert...but I guess that would be something for IMAP standards....... -- ===Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean at bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035