Hey! Did you see what Jack Barnett wrote on May 24 ?

JB> I wrote a small perl script that checks the mail and depending on the word
JB> in the subject line takes certain actions depeding on the subject.

Why not just use procmail?  
 
JB> The script keeps looping and sleeping till there is new mail.  the script
JB> has to be run as the user to work properly and has to be always running so
JB> that when a user sends mail to this, it will do its things and give the
JB> messages back to the user.

Is your script for incoming mail or outgoing mail?  Perhaps you could run
it from cron??
 

Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   ICQ: 34307457
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