actually here's what i believe it was. certainly a shotgun tactic. reloaded via CPAN all the modules listed in rflinkserver.pl. also loaded 'em into the client in case i wanted to make it into a server. use arq; use Mail::POP3Client; use Net::SMTP; use Net::SMTP::TLS; use DB_File; use IO::Handle; use MIME::Base64; use Time::Local; use Email::LocalDelivery; use Email::Folder; (ie: cpan[1]> install Mail::POP3Client (etc, etc)) and restartd the server and it started working. guess i missed one or two. thanks for all the help from everyone! eddie. --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.