Here are my answers below your questions. > At the moment its sending and receiving automatically and I'd like to turn > this feature off. Go to prefs with command ca-ma and go to general and then to the pop up button that says every x minutes and set that to manually. > Also, how do I have my messages sent by a certain account by default? go to prefs again and go to accounts and go to account info and go to use only this server and check it. I believe that's how you do it. > Also, is there a shortcut key to have the time spoken like with windows Yes. hit vo f8, go to commanders and select the keyboard commander and turn keyboard commander on. Now by default the keystroke to check the time is right option plus t. YOu can change this in the table but I don't recommend it. S> > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >