thank you lars for your reply to my query sa doesnt do any of these it is probably a function of whatever scanning system mda you re using amavis procmail whatever what exactly are you using i am using spamassassin as part of the mailscanner package using sendmail as the mta it integrates nicely in there and shares a configuration file with sa all very neat sa in itself does nothing really you need a frontend procmail amavis etc at some point in the mail delivery chain that can hand over the message to sa and do whatever other processing you want i thought that sa rated a message with a certain score then did a certain action such as store deliver delete based on the configuration given i was hoping there were some other actions that i could custom program in again many thanks adrian this URL email is sponsored by osdn tired of that same old cell phone get a new here for free URL _______________________________________________ spamassassin talk mailing list spamassassin talk URL URL 