Simon Baxter wrote: > Does anyone know of any tools available to monitor and parse emails? > Perhaps something the sourceforge, or even the this mail list uses to > list subscribed lists etc??? Take a look at procmail. It's been around for ages and it's the tool of choice for email processing. Here is an example procmail recipe that extracts information from a matching message and runs shell commands with this info: http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html#setvar Cheers, Julian