I'd rather you modified the standard procmail package to have an enivronment variable PROCMAIL_NO_SLEEP_AFTER_LOCK or a procmail variable to control this function. Then it could be specific to your procmailrc. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP Bruce@Pixar.com 510-215-3502 Finger bruce@master.Debian.org for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3