Mike: Even after changing permissions/ownership from -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 9220 Dec 12 00:14 movemail* to -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 9220 Dec 12 00:14 movemail* the problem still occurs. The problem manifests itself as an emacs error message: "Renaming: permission denied, /var/spool/mail/deisher, /var/spool/mail/deisher+". Check /var/spool/mail/deisher, it should be -rw-rw---- 1 deisher mail Raul D. Miller <rockwell@nova.umd.edu>