Sorry I realized I think I sent this from the wrong address so not sure if my apology made it to the list so I"m forwarding it on.

also ..the quotes fixed the procedure call from getmail and I'm working on getting the maildir stuff correct. I didn't realize sylpheed used MH format and not maildir. Thanks again for all your help.

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And of course Sierke you were correct - the proper syntax for calling a procedure is in the documentation. Honestly I really did attempt to read everything. I swear:) What happened was I saw the Message Delivery Targets section but didn't realize you could drill down further and get even more examples of the correct syntax. My apologies. Thanks for not flaming me.