X-Sent: 44 minutes, 40 seconds ago That's better. Less than an hour, now you're on top of things, Steve. |--==> "n" == nbecker <nbecker(a)fred.net&gt; writes: n> Can display-time-mail-file point to an imap or pop mailbox? If so, n> what is the syntax? Here's my round about answer. Assuming you are on a Unix based system, can you set the environment variable "MAIL" to either an imap or pop mailbox? (so things like biff could use it) If so, that's the answer. I could be wrong, and hopefully for your sake I am, but I don't think this is possible. Just thought of something, these mailboxes you are referring to, are they local or remote? If local, just point the "MAIL" environment var to the mailbox file and leave 'display-time-mail-file' as 'nil'. That probably hasn't helped you much, but hey, at least the response time was cut down by about 48 weeks. :-) Did I mention how sorry I was about that? -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 10D5C9C5>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|

|--==> "n" == nbecker <nbecker(a)fred.net&gt; writes: n> Right now I use fetchmail to suck the mail in from a remote imap n> server to my local machine. Then display-time works fine to show me I n> have new mail. Problem is, I want to leave the mail on the imap n> server because, for now, I can't access this machine from home. Tell fetchmail to leave the messages on the server. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 10D5C9C5>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|