2010-06-28 I should have known: The shell construct ~user/ is not portable. Finally started to use Neil Rickert's MH scripts. [0] Why not earlier? They make handling of signed and encyrpted mails in MH really easy. Gunnar Ritter now has applied my patch which fixes the -x flag in Heirloom col. [1] Great! [0] http://faculty.cs.niu.edu/~rickert/mh/ [1] http://heirloom.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/heirloom/heirloom/col/col.c?revision=1.3&view=markup http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke