I too, am having some trouble figuring out what your trouble is, but perhaps my recent troubles with mutt, exim and debian will be of use: http://nerd.cx/get.php?blog20040102 Take a look at the configs section of the site too - there are .muttrc files, configs for exim and postfix - all functional and understood by me, so you have someone to go to to ask specific questions. -- yours, William nerd.cx