Hello, Glad to say, I have been using SM since June and now have 2928 messages as shown in the folder status bar arranged in numerous folders and have experienced no such strangeness (touch wood). I am using OS3.9 on a FFS partition. I even pointed some folders at some Disksalv recovered YAM folders after a particularily nasty HD problem and it all still works fine. Kulwant __________________________________________________________________________ SimpleMail mailing list - //www.freelists.org/list/simplemail-usr Listserver help.: mailto:simplemail-usr-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=HELP Unsub....: mailto:simplemail-usr-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=UNSUBSCRIBE