I am using the VVV nntp patch and want to set a group of stuff if I am in one news folder, but I think the problem is a general mutt one. If I do something like this:- folder-hook rec.foo.bar \ 'set index_format="---some pattern" \ "my_hdr Newsgroups: rec.foo.bar" \ "score \'~f fred\' -20' it sets the index format but does not set the header for mailing. I have tried many variants of the quotes but either it does neither or just the first one. How does one set up the quotes properly? The score line is something I also want to add, but I have not tried it as above. I can get everything I want to do to work in separate folder-hook lines, but this is verbose. mutt is 1.3.19 Cheers, Brian. -- Associate Professor Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chemistry, School of BECS, SITE, NT University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia. Phone 08-89466702. Fax 08-89466847. http://www.smps.ntu.edu.au/