This makes sense, since Outlook can read the mail. It seems strange that both Netscape and KMail get stuck on the same message. I will have to try the fetchmail or telnet idea. > > Sometimes clients hang on particular pieces of mail. I've seen it be > because the mail was too big, because it had some header or attachment the > client didn't understand or reasons we never figured out. > > Check out fetchmail. There are a couple of other command line mail getters. > You might even be able to just delete that particular mail with them. You > could also do that by telnetting to to port 110 and issuing a bunch of mail > commands by hand or by using the perl module that understands pop. > > For the mail that's on m$: if you can get it in some sort of text format, > which is probably what it's in, then you can transfer it to your Linux box. > Search freshmeat for mail converters. Used to be a bunch of 'em out there. > > ciao, > > der.hans -- Rick Rosinski http://rickrosinski.com rick@rickrosinski.com