hmm, I now also noticed that there is a file @ in my home directory, which is a symbolic link to the current message in exmh. I don't think this used to be the case. and after a reboot, the smail daemon had to be manually started again. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .