One thing you should probably do is delete the lines that has the defautl MAILDIR. Something about $HOME/mail/imbox Then for example change the rule for the speakup list to look like this: :0: * ^Reply To: speakup $HOME/mail/speakup-list And for other mail what I do is do: :0 c: * ^From: someone at somewhere.com $HOME/mail/name The c on the first line tells the system to keep that person's message in the mbox and to also copy it to their mail box for archiving. You can also do this with the speakup list as well. Tommy