OK, my Mail account has been freezing on me after a use or two (if I leave it "on" all the time) and making me Force Quit. Last nite, after a note on this list about scrapping the preference file (which I'm loathe to do because it's such a lot of making notes and rebuilding), I decided to seek out the Library > Mail folder and look at it. And there I found two identical files for the same e-address. Except one, at 1.5MB, showed a creation date of Oct 14, 2003 and latest mod at the time of my last online...and the second at 29.3MB, shows creation date a week or so EARLIER and same last mod time. I figure having two files with same i.d. can't be right, so this morning I decided to drag the smallest one out of the folder to see what happens. More later, maybe. don hinkle, visual storyteller -------------------------------------- A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul. -Eric Pio, poet