Thanks for the reply. It turns out that the problem lies with fetchmail. It's been fixed in an upcoming release. You won't need any hacks in your exim.conf file anymore, nor will you need fetchmail's -mda option. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .