Procmail should be able to do this. in your .procmailrc file a recipe such as this: :0 c |/path/to/your/sound/program should . be the first recipe. The sound playing program should discard the standard input which will be the email message and should play your sound snippet. -- rudy _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list