of the problem -- does majordomo, just to pick the obvious alternative, insist on using a single mbox file, and locking it up almost all the time? -- ------------------------------------- There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A grave that the Burmans shun, And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri Who tells how the work was done. -------------------------------------