Lynn> Over the weekend I reinstalled my Linux system Lynn> from scratch (to SuSe 9.1 Pro) Mike> 'M-x rebuild-mail-aliases' always worked for me Mike> and I am using that function quite often, Mike> therefore I don't think that was ever broken in Mike> the SuSE XEmacs package. I would have noticed. That problem was posted quite a while ago. A couple of days later it just simply magically cured itself for reasons unknown to me. That sort of thing is typical of the stuff that happens when you rebuild a system from scratch. It takes a while for all the pieces to stop rolling. Sometimes moving to a new release is mostly a matter of trading one set of bugs for another. Meanwhile I discovered that I can no longer rebuild xemacs from source. That problem remains, but doesn't matter because the version I have works fine. It's not an xemacs problem -- I'm evidently missing a bunch of build stuff. I don't know why and I don't know what. Doesn't matter for now. Thanks for the response. -- Lynn David Newton Phoenix, AZ