Another good thing about using Entourage is that there are a lot of places to go for help if needed on any aspect of it; <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> If you want to get to know and use the Uni* side of X then you could always have a go at the open source alternatives such as pine or Xemacs or download fink and probably even use most of the gnome or kde programs (there is a pretty decent GUI email app from Kde..) Commercially there are alternatives such as Mailsmith (from the people that produce Bbedit); <http://www.barebones.com/products/mailsmith/> I am sure it is great but haven't tried it myself... Cheers, Richard --