Charles, Does the flag appear like a large version of the tilde? And does it toggle anything in prefs that has to be unchecked? Carter On Mar 3, 2004, at 11:11 AM, Charles Martin wrote: > The problem with Mail is that the "flag" that appears next to your > "In" box icon is GRAY and thus very hard to see -- it doesn't help > that it's also very tiny. If you click on the icon it will go back > into "online" mode again. Apple should really make this warning flag a > brighter colour like orange so that we can glance at the screen and > see immediately what the problem is. THAT'S the bug here.