I am starting to investigate this occuring in (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.2 (beta46) \"Urania\" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Thu Mar 29 2001 on D5DC120J" Reading active file via nnml... nnml: Reading incoming mail from pop... Retrieving message list... Retrieving message list...5 unread Retrieving message 1 of 5 from pop.t-online.com... Retrieving message 2 of 5 from pop.t-online.com... Retrieving message 3 of 5 from pop.t-online.com... Retrieving message 4 of 5 from pop.t-online.com... Retrieving message 5 of 5 from pop.t-online.com... Wrote c:\Users\AichnerAd\.emacs-mail-crash-box Mail source error ((file-error I/O error No such file or directory c:\Users\AichnerAd\.uidls.old)). Continue? (y or n) Mail source error ((file-error I/O error No such file or directory c:\Users\AichnerAd\.uidls.old)). Continue? (y or n) M-x Please answer y or n. Mail source error ((file-error I/O error No such file or directory c:\Users\AichnerAd\.uidls.old)). Continue? (y or n) Mail source error ((file-error I/O error No such file or directory c:\Users\AichnerAd\.uidls.old)). Continue? (y or n) Yes nnml: Reading incoming mail (no new mail)...done Reading active file via nnml... Reading active file via nnml...done Reading active file via nnfolder... Reading active file via nnfolder... Reading active file via nnfolder...done Checking new news... -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/