This just struck me today: I would love to see the capability to express message-length, digest-length, etc. in *characters* instead of lines. I know that the lines measurement comes from the days of VM when that's the value the operating system returned, but with Unix, NT, etc. there's actually a conversion required to get it. Using characters is more OS- natural, *and* it's more relevant most of the time (i.e. "set the digest to X characters because AOL treats it differently when it gets bigger than that ... oops, can't do that, oh well, set it to Y lines which usually approximates X characters" or "set the message size limit to X characters to avoid attachments, oops set it to Y lines, oops well that lets through some types of MIME attachments which occupy hellishly long lines, oh well") Only if it's easy ... only if it's easy ... but it would be nice for 1.8c. Norm -- Be braver. You cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.