Pete Johns: > According to the manual, '!', not '=' is the shortcut for > $spoolfile. This works fine for me. Both '!' and '=' manage to refer to my ~/.maildir directory. Changing the mailboxes line to use '!' doesn't seem to help the cyclying problem, though. -- Cameron McCormack, http://mcc.id.au/ xmpp:heycam@xxxxxxxxxx ▪ ICQ 26955922 ▪ MSN cam@xxxxxxxxx