Hi, In the category of "what everybody else ought to know and probably does": I just discovered at least a partial cure for my seeming inability to receive HTML messages, or at least some of them. Often when trying to read a message I'd get an error approximately like: Text/html not supported; use 'v' to see this part Pressing v gave me a list of attachments (usually only one), but when I hit Enter on it the computer just sat there. If I hit Enter repeatedly it still just sat there. If I used ^c to get out of the viewer I'd get what appeared to be HTML source with escape sequences for GUI display. Through a circuitous process I discovered that I needed to create a .mailcap file containing the following command: text/html; /usr/bin/htmlview -dump %s ; copiousoutput Without the -dump switch, htmlview displays the source instead of decoding it as we Mutt users would expect. I'm curious as to what other .mailcap dodges people have found necessary in text mode. Whether we like it or not, Linux is going GUI, folks. Text mode is already a poor relation and it'll get poorer, just as it did when DOS with Windows on it evolved into Windows with a bare nod toward DOS. If "I've looked at clouds from both sides now", I fear I know them all too well. :-( Lee _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list