cmail is a simple mail counting tool written in perl. It reads in a config fileXand returns which mailfiles contain mail, how much mail, and how many new messages. Example of output - Personal mail 1 message JLC mail 20 messages (2 new) EXPI mail 2 messages DWC RPG 1 message This may be useful if you split your mail into multiple files using something like procmail. I'm not sure if the new/old mail determination works with anything other than mutt. WWW: http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/projects.html Chip Marshall