 on tue NUMBER oct NUMBER dag dag nygren wrote dag but when procmail runs it it doesn t presumably as it dag doesn t have the authorization to communicate with the dag laptop beeing another user i don t know anything about the kde sound server but i d guess your problem is the environment in which procmail runs you don t say what procmail is running from in my case for example procmail is run from fetchmail which is run by a cron job sorry about that procmail is run by the qmail delivery agent to presort all mail i get but anyway i found an error message in procmail log which solved the problem the following line in my delivery script seems to work fine now display laptop NUMBER NUMBER artsplay soundfile thanks dag _______________________________________________ exmh users mailing list exmh users URL URL 