Yeah, I realise I need to get mail in to the system as well, but this seems fairly trivial using those routines in the HELP section or even (god forbid) some kind of SSH / SFTP / DCL script monstrosity. What I was worried about was getting the FIDO% addressing working and it does, like a dream actually. Basically, I'll have a UNIX box doing the heavy lifting (i.e. mailer, bundling of messages etc) and the VMS box gets fed very straight forward messages in, and pumps very straight forward messages out . In fact I have something that works quite well already for the VMS -> Fido bit, now reading up on how to get the mail the other way. As for why? Pure amusement value, getting one fairly obscure network (HECnet) connected to another (Fidonet) will be a nice little challenge and great fun if we get it to work. Sampsa On 2 Jul 2009, at 04:09, Bob Armstrong wrote: Erik Soderholm) provided me with source code that does pretty much exactly what I want (well listens to a <protname>% thing from mail and does something with it). Glad to hear you got what you need. Maybe I shouldn't mention it right now, but this is only half the job. This part will handle the outgoing (MAIL-11 -> FIDOnet) part, but you'll also need to write another program that runs as a detached system process ("daemon" to you Un*x guys) that listens for incoming FIDOnet mail and then dumps it into MAIL-11 (presumably using the MAIL$ API routines). It's not really hard, but it's another piece that you'll need. What (or rather who) is still on FIDOnet these days? Bob