Hi gang, My pine configuration seems to be showing me those html messages in plain text, and I am not sure why. I am suing version 4.44 and have tinkered so much with the many features that I cannot pinpoint what it is that causes my pine to be so friendly with html stuff. Here are a few features I have selected that might be doing it: enable-msg-view-urls, enable-msg-view-attachments, show-plain-text-internally, prefer-plain-text, If anybody would like a copy of my .pinerc to play with I will be happy to send it, but it makes two nonstandard references that might be a problem for you: my lynx resides in /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin, and I have defined an alternative editor which is invoked implicitely. The editor is actually a script with first runs nano and then runs ispell against the composed message automatically . You would want to change those two references to match your own system configuration. Chuck *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* Visit me now at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waning Gibbous (90% of Full)