On Sunday 22 February 2009 02:26:19 Claude Jones wrote: > 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 This is from Gnome. This time, it opened with the preview pane blank, but, the other behavior with the highlighting is not occurring; I clicked on reply to my message, highlighted what I wanted to delete, and deleted it without problem. I did get the preview pane working by turning it off and back on, and then clicking on a new message in the message list. This is pretty strange stuff... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD