Hi Ron, I might be able to help with one of your questions. Does outlook Distress support connecting to an IMAP server. If so, you could copy all of your mail folders using Outlook to a directory on the IMAP server, and copy them back to the Linux side using IMAP. I know that pine supports IMAP. I imagine that there are other mail clients for Linux that do. I have a machine on the network which was put there for the express purpose of having Speakup users and other friends play with it. There's an IMAP server on that machine. If you're interested, just tell me what you'd like your username to be. Hope this helps. Bill in Denver