Angus, I'm fiddling; ubuntu forum says got to highlight or select text before composing. still not great. Well, it's OK, but kinda sucks to have to go through that. Since making changes in your settings, have you closed & reopened Evolution. IIRC, that's a requirement in Evolution to get changes to work. Done prefs and restarted 3 times now... checking that it didn't default... not quoting... never mind I'll keep fiddling To unsubcribe send e-mail with the word unsubscribe in the body to: Linux-Anyway-Request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?body=unsubscribe