Hi Russell, Have you read the Claws manual? Just asking because: 2.3. Reading your mail Once you have retrieved your emails, the Inbox folder will contain them. The total number of emails in a folder is shown at the right of the folder's name, along with the number of unread and new emails in it. To see them, click on the folder row in the folder list, and the list of emails in that folder will be displayed in the Message List pane. You can then select an email using the mouse, or by using the Up and Down keys to navigate through the list, and the Space bar to display and scroll emails. You can use other keys to navigate through emails, like P and N (previous and next). Shift-P and Shift-N work for unread messages, btw. And in both cases, the selection of a folder in the folder tree doesn't override these keystrokes. AND you can read through the currently selected mail using Space. (If you hate that, see below.) If you want to change the keystrokes you use to do a certain thing, and it's on the GUI menu somewhere, make sure you've enabled customisable keyboard shortcuts in Configuration/Preferences/Miscellaneous. Once you've done that, if you drop the menu down with the mouse, and run the mouse cursor down the menu until you've highlighted the relevant command (don't click!), you can press the new key combination. It will show up on the menu, and work immediately. (Important to know this, so you know WHY all of a sudden pressing A has some other effect than to insert a letter a into your email.) And don't forget the invisible commands; they're all laid out in the manual. Anyway, good luck with it! Cheers, -- Trish Fraser, VVMZ4 91L2V -35.67910, 142.66607 Mon Jul 15 11:40:22 EST 2013 GNU/Linux 1997-2012 #283226 counter.li.org andromeda up 4 hour(s), 8 min. Mageia release 3 (Official) for x86_64 kernel 3.8.13.4-desktop-1.mga3