> Not sure (it's at my ISP) - when I telnet to port 143 it says "IMAP4rev1 > 2000.281 at [date] [time] If it's at your ISP, I guess it's a maildir imap server... So if you use file instead of folder, your ISP's imap server can't open them... But with what did you create your "folderX" files ? -- Le Sensei...