I could just track down my problems with inline decoding of html-mail in vm to an outdated version of mm.el in pgnus. i was receiving "Replacing authorization method `%s' - this could be bad." warnings. This i tracked down to an undeclared variable mm-mime-data-default. This again was due to an outdated version of mm.el that gets loaded from the pgnus directorie. Therefore the correct version of mm.el was never loaded from the w3 directorie. Though this probably only an issue with my installation of pgnus, I would like to sugest now that there should be only one file of mm.el. gruss/regards tom roth