Well, you've got an opportunity for a Learning Experience, then :-) Assuming you've got access to a Unix machine you can run things on, it's not hard to set up procmail or majordomo or the old, simple, reliable netlib stuff that ran the netlib@research.att.com (and maybe still does?). Since you're posting from MIZZOU1, you're at least behind a mail server run by somebody else, so I'm not sure how much control you have..... If you want to roll your own crude mail-reply system on Unix, it's really not hard, using some simple shell programming and the sed batch editor equivalent to "ed" and the : commands of vi - when you receive a mail message, you stick it in a file, then use sed or whatever to find the "From:" line so you know who to send it back to, and lines that look like your command set (e.g. "get foo"), stickthe appropriate stuff into a mail message and send it back. If you want to do all this on DOS, well, good luck :-) Look at teh tools you've got available for handling mail, and get yourself a copy off Eudora or Waffle if you don't have either of them. Then you're on your own. BIll