BTW, during the spinning wheels, Nail is "Writing changes to disk." That might be a useful piece of information. Begin forwarded message: > I've got to do something now. My Mail application is suddenly giving > me many long-term spinning wheels, especially when I am in a certain > mailbox which has most of my digests (about 3500 to be exact). > > I have already tried to rebuild the offending mailbox, but that does > not seem to fix the issue. > > Should I throw out preferences? If so, how do I do that? > > If that doesn't work, should I reinstall Mail? If so, how do I do > that? And if not, what next? > > Thanks. > -- David R. Boag, DDS spikedds at bellsouth.net Dental Design of Kedron, LLC