You don't want to be using pine to download email, that's best done with fetchmail and a .fetchmailrc file in your home directory. The -k switch supplied to fetchmail will get you a copy of what's in your mailbox without deleting it. Authentication with pine, I'm interested in that myself. One of my i.s.p.'s also requires authentication. -- Registered as user #315636 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/! _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list