Thanks Hal, Stanton, Miron - I finally got it to work, on the menudo side, not the NeXT. I don't know what the deal is with the NeXT; 'cat .plan | myscript' worked (myscript had all the necessary stuff) but having this .forward file didn't: "|/bigpath/barrus/myscript" But, I got it to work from menudo with this in my .maildelivery file: to "barrus@tree.egr.uh.edu" | A "PGPPATH=/fajitas/elee9sf/Crypto/pgp22 /fajitas/elee9sf/bin/pgp -fea barrus | /usr/lib/mh/rcvstore +fromnext" Mail sent to barrus@tree.egr.uh.edu gets piped through pgp, encrypted, and then stored in the mail folder 'fromnext'. The PGPPATH did seem to be the missing factor! Now, for those who wonder why in the world I'd want to do this... I've been involved in a quasi-flame session on USENET (in comp.admin.policy and other cross-posted groups) concerning a student who was suspended here. My posts became more and more sarcastic, and as I was contemplating sending out a post which may have been on the edge, and not wanting to make the sh*tlist here - or get higher up on it :-) - I was going to route it through penet from my tree account. But then responses to the post would have eventually been dropped here on menudo, since I have my mail forwarded. Now I'm not suggesting that the admins here are watching my mail, but it wouldn't be difficult for the admins to do some traffic analysis (crypto sophistication!), noting that Karl's mail file grows coincident in time and size to responses to XYZ post... enter encryption! So it would be better to get the encryption going on the NeXT side, but this solution is good enough for me. Final note: I forgot penet is restricting posts for the time being, but in any event this system is working.) /-----------------------------------\ | Karl L. Barrus | | elee9sf@menudo.uh.edu | <- preferred address | barrus@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXTMail) | \-----------------------------------/