This is what Fetchmail says: ~$fetchmail 1 message for shadypond.com/pollywog at mercury.he.net (4589 octets). reading message 1 of 1 (4589 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mercury.he.net fetchmail: Query status=10 If this is a DNS problem, I can't find it. -- Andrew