On 24 Dec 2006 as I do recall, Harriet Bazley wrote: > 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. :-( [snip] > > Any ideas as to where else it could have gone? I'm assuming it's > probably lost for good. > The good news is that - to my considerable puzzlement - while the messages logged as deleted spam were indeed deleted from the server, all the messages logged as being downloaded were still present at the next fetch; so nothing lost. I suppose it must all depend at what stage AntiSpam fails to write to file.... :-) -- H. Bazley A poor workman blames his tools.