Hi! I am in the unenviable position of knowing what the problem is, but not knwoing how to fix it. The problem is that when mutt goes looking for a public key, it say 'looking for key 12345678' and has the connection shut down by peer, or some such. The solution is that it should be 'looking for key 0x122345678' I know this because I tried to obtain the key manually, and found that was what needed changing. The hard question (for me) is how to communicate that change to mutt? -- Good Hunting! Kipling+ (Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00)