Hello Michael, Wednesday, January 1, 2003, 12:19:49 PM, you wrote: MP> Netscape 7.0 includes, as part of it's release, an email client, capable of MP> handling POP3 and IMAP accounts. The method that the email client utilizes MP> to permanently delete email messages is not explained, which could lead to MP> users having large quantities of email messages, which they would think of MP> as permanently deleted, still stored in clear text on their hard disks. The same applies to Ritlab's The Bat! (up to version 1.60c i'm currently using). The Bat! stores all of the messages in $thebathome\mail\$accountname\$foldername\Messages.tbb and status information in Messages.tbi (without customization and message filtering all mail goes to $foldername named inbox). All messages remain there until Folder|Compress function is used. The question is - is that a feature or a bug? I'm using The Bat! for nearly three years now and it's there from where I can remember (although there were dozen or so version changes). -- Best regards, Bartek Raszczyk mailto:crayfish@underground.org.pl