I can't really help. I have have a lot of problems with mail on several computers. I gave up and started using Mozilla Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/); It is a very good mail client, reliable. Roger S. Stanley wrote: > I've never heard anyone else mention this but, I am using a G4 867 > PowerBook running 10.2.8 and if I have mail running, it freezes my > computer every few minutes whenever it is writing changes to disk. Is > there any way to stop this or do I have too many emails in my inbox or > something? It sometimes freezes my computer for up to 5 minutes. It is > very annoying. Anyone have any suggestions? Any help is greatly > appreciated. >