Now that I appear to be learning my way around mutt, I thought I should contribute the following pair of macros, suitable for folks on this list :-) send-hook . 'set attribution="On %d, %n wrote:"' send-hook mutt- 'set attribution="On %d, %n muttered:"' -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley