If it's any consolation, my wife occasionally checks her email on my iBook and she still uses Outlook Express. That's about the only time my iBook does use Classic, and it occasionally causes the same problem you're having. When she uses OE on her computer (an older Wall St.), no problem. On 8/11/03 1:17 PM, "Tobias" <Parkblue at gmx.net> wrote: > When I use OE 5.0.6 in Classic to access e-mail it freezes the iBook > completely - nothing but a restart helps.