Hi again, Deedra: To add aa bit to Kerry's helpful suggestions: I believe the cursor issue is handled by the variable: set arrow_cursor The default is to highlight the current selection, which doesn't help Speakup. When you use 'c' to change to a mail folder, you would need to specify the path from the current working directory. This is different from how Pine behaves. My solution is to simply launch mutt from within the mail directory. After all, I always have mutt open in one console, so why not? For myself, I have symlinked Mail (with a capital M) to mail (with lower-case m). I want mutt to red aall my saved mail, of course. You can, however, also specify your preferred folder in the muttrc file. Notice there's both a global /etc/Muttrc (with a capital M, grrrrr) and a user specific $HOME/.muttrc