Hello Patrick, Thanks for the advice. I was able to import from Pegasus by specifying in the Import dialogue window of Kmail the full path to the folder where the .pmm, .mbx, .cnm files were. What I was doing incorrectly before this was that I was specifying the path only until the main Pegasus folder thinking that Kmail will somehow find its way to the subfolders in which the said files exist. Thanks for your help. Best wishes, Ram. On Wednesday 09 July 2003 16:22, Patrick Shanahan wrote: <PS> * ramprasad potluri <potluri@engr.uky.edu> [07-09-03 12:23]: <PS> > On Wednesday 09 July 2003 08:50, Patrick Shanahan wrote: <PS> > <PS> > <PS> <PS> > <PS> Try deleting the .*.index.* files. They will be recreaded <PS> > when you <PS> restart kmail. <PS> > <PS> -- <PS> > <PS> > I am afraid I did not follow you. What index files and where? <PS> <PS> In your ~/mail or ~/Mail directory you will have, ie: <PS> -rw------- 1 pat users 33 2003-07-08 22:29 .drafts.index <PS> -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 33 2003-07-08 22:29 .drafts.index.ids <PS> -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 49 2003-05-23 15:20 .drafts.index.sorted <PS> -rw------- 1 pat users 33 2003-07-08 22:29 .inbox.index <PS> -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 33 2003-07-08 22:29 .inbox.index.ids <PS> -rw------- 1 pat users 33 2003-07-08 22:29 .outbox.index <PS> -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 33 2003-07-08 22:29 .outbox.index.ids <PS> -rw------- 1 pat users 1261 2003-05-23 15:20 .saved-messages.index <PS> -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 49 2003-07-08 22:29 .saved-messages.index.ids <PS> -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 161 2003-05-23 15:20 .saved-messages.index.sorted <PS> -rw------- 1 pat users 5109 2003-07-08 22:29 .sent-mail.index <PS> -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 125 2003-07-08 22:29 .sent-mail.index.ids <PS> -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 637 2003-06-25 15:28 .sent-mail.index.sorted <PS> -rw------- 1 pat users 297 2003-07-08 22:29 .trash.index <PS> -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 37 2003-07-08 22:29 .trash.index.ids <PS> -rw------- 1 pat users 0 2003-07-08 22:29 drafts <PS> -rw------- 1 pat users 2872977 2003-07-08 22:29 inbox <PS> -rw------- 1 pat users 0 2003-07-08 22:29 outbox <PS> -rw------- 1 pat users 44039 2003-05-23 15:20 saved-messages <PS> -rw------- 1 pat users 72890 2003-07-08 22:29 sent-mail <PS> -rw------- 1 pat users 2729 2003-07-08 22:29 trash <PS> <PS> The first 15 files are 'index' files. If you delete them, kmail will <PS> recreate them the next time your start it. <PS> <PS> These files were *probably* garbled when you did your *import*. <PS> -- <PS> Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 <PS> http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org <PS> --