Well, after two frustrating days I got it all working! Colors work now that I'm using ncurses (5.0 for those interested), and the readonly inbox problem is also gone due to this small problem with the RPM specfile: %files %defattr(-,root,root) That's what was messing up the permissions on mutt_dotlock I'm assuming because since I commented out the %defattr section in %files it's all working now... Thank you to *everyone* who made suggestions and comments to help me out with this. I *seriously* appreciate it. I'm so happy!!! =) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org Current Linux uptime: 2 days 13 hrs and 04 mins.