On Saturday July 08 2006 2:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > you will probably have to manually select the > account when you send, but it's no big deal. Actually, I have 5 different email accounts, Anne, and I can configure Kmail to use whichever I want, automatically, in many situations. For example, you can configure replies to message from any particular sub-folder to always use a certain non-default account. By creating different identities and carefully examining the right-click options in a couple of places, the options are pretty endless. Bottom line - I use all my mail accounts, and I almost never have to manually choose which one to use to send... it's pretty impressive, what the Kmail developers have built in, though you have to poke a bit. Regarding gmail, I've done it three ways; web-access only, which I share Ric's sentiments on; setting options in Gmail to forward my mail while keeping and/or deleting the original - you can micromanage which ones are kept, by the way, using filters and other options; and I've used it as a plain old pop/smtp service - and of course you're right, once you understand all those options, you can pretty much get around any upstream filtering schemes -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA