One of the nice things about pcrisis is that in addition to being able to apply some heuristics to determine who the mail should appear from, you can also choose a specific 'profile' per message or easily change what pcrisis is automatically using. Aa to the interface - well, I think its fine if your customizing it via ..vm (thats how I did it). I would need to look at its support for customize to determine if we could provide an easier wayt o do a basic configuration. With respect to its interface with VM, I've had no problems with it - it just sort of works for me. I cannot think of any issues I have had which I thought needed to be improved. A lot may depend on what individual requirements are - I wouldn't say I'm a power user of the package. Possibly the main improvement would be to add to the documentation - maybe add some basic recipes for setting up a really basic configuration and maybe some examples of more advanced configurations. The pcrisis package is extremely powerful - what took me the longest was just understanding how it all fit together and realizing for my setup, I didn't need all the bells and whistles. Once I broke it down to just what I needed, it was surprisingly simple - initially, it was a little hard to see the wood for the trees. Maybe a basic recipe or two would help with that. However, I must point out that it was over 6 years ago that I did this setup and I've not had to change it since (actually, in recent months I removed my pcrisis configuration to maintain a stripped down config while I worked on other VM issues). One of the problems with packages that are this reliable is that you tend to forget the gory details! Note that I'm not saying we should not add this sort of functionality into core VM, only that doing so in a reliable and clean way is non-trivial and that currently, VM does have this functionality via pcrisis, which is/has been used by a number of people for quite some time. My recommendation would be to use pcrisis for a while. This is likely to give a better position for evaluating whether we can either integrate it better or add a 'light-weight' solution that may be easier to use (possibly by borrowing ideas from pcrisis and improving on them). I will try to find time to restore my old configuraiton and see if there are any issues with current VM or Emacs 24 and try to refresh my memory regarding the package and some of the issues involved in getting this right. Tim On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Arik