Thanks, Chris. This is another instance where speakup's highlight tracking let me down. But I'm now in business. I'll pass along a comment on my mail setup for what it's worth. I am the only user of this machine so wanted to keep the mail thing as simple as possible. I'm using a combination of mutt, ssmtp and getmail to handle the mail. I also have my /home in its own partition and set the spoolfile to point to the inbox in my Mail directory. Chris