On Oct 19, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Thomas McDermott wrote: > Good evening, > I was wondering if someone could explain something to me regarding > how the Mail program handles deleting mail from my server. I had to abandon leaving mail on my server (mercuryin.es) because the server would eat it's own messages, and next time I autochecked for mail, it would match my laptop to itself, and delete messages without any authority. I now divert all messages to mercury at cliveread.com (that is hosted by hostmonster.com) and autocollect from there. I have had no problems with that arrangement. THANKS for a constant source of info Clive (in Spain)