Excellent! that's what I need to see. Thanks to Tom on the bit about reconfiguring and demons, I always wondered what the --reconfigure option of dpkg did. Now that this hopefully works, what do I do about the no aliases error mutt gives me? That error happens after I try to type in an address on the to line and i see it again when I hit tab. I'm assuming here that you tab from to: to cc: to subject and so forth. Sean