Thanks for all the help, people. Your advice about how to fix the clock problem was spot on. Now, another query. If I do a fetchmail and it reports, say, 30 mails, sometimes these mails can be transfered to my spool file in batches. So, I get the first ten and then I have to wait a few minutes for the next ten. I guess that there must be an explicit delay somewhere. Does anyone know where this delay might be? Cordially Tim