Ah, right! Sending email! Doh! But the VM documentation for "Sending Messages" says: When sending messages from within VM, you will be using the standard Mail major mode provided with GNU Emacs, plus some extensions added by VM. *Note Mail Mode: (emacs)Mail Mode. However, mail composition buffers created by VM have some extra command keys. Will the extensions be picked up by the menu entry? Even if it does nothing special, perhaps there should be a "VM" entry that simply calls vm-mail (if functionp). -- David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc. Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA