Well, here are a couple more suggestions; don't know that they work but i hate the thought of you having to completely reinstall!!1 you could try uninstalling exim completely and then seeing if you can reinstall exim3. Either dpkg -P exim or apt-get remove exim could be tried; you also could try apt-get remove exmi* (note the asterisk after the word exim) to see if it will just take everything connected with exim. The only thing is: i don't know how you got it to install exim4, so I don't know if when you try to install again it will try to install exim4 on you again. You could try these steps and see how far you get though. Another possibility is to use aptitude instead of apt-get; I know that worked one time when apt-=get didn't but I haven't read up on it yet so don't use it much. Hope something here helps. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."