Reply to this message After your window opens, try highlighting some text Does KMail crash? With me, it always triggers a crash - usually the mere act of highlighting, sometimes the next action which is usually a delete or typing something new in over the highlighted part When I reopen, the message preview pane is blank - I have to turn preview off and then back on, and then scroll or click to a new message to get the text to appear This is only happening in KDE desktop - if I open KMail in Gnome, it behaves itself - will confirm that in a followup, just to make sure -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD