How to lose lots of e-mail: move your copy of AntiSpam and its choices from a computer using POPStar to one using Hermes, without remembering to update the settings inside AntiSpam. :-( Approximately forty messages appear to have disappeared into the aether, to the accompaniment of assorted errors of the 'file not found' variety; unfortunately Christopher was supervising the download and I was not present, so I didn't get to hear about it until afterwards. Since I don't see how AntiSpam could have spent all that time downloading stuff (and successfully deleting it from the server) without being able to open a file to download it into in the first place, I have a horrible feeling that the missing e-mail was probably present in its Scrap directory until I shut down the computer; at any rate, it's not there now. Any ideas as to where else it could have gone? I'm assuming it's probably lost for good. -- H. Bazley It's clever, but is it art? - Rudyard Kipling