Sorry, not ungrateful for replies, just away for a few days. Anders Johansson [mailto:andjoh@rydsbo.net] replied:

You might want to check the hard disk of OS X, to make sure Mail hasn't downloaded the email and then deleted them from the server

Eeek. I thought the point of IMAP was to keep the mail on the server and manage it there, rather than on local machines (that was why I wanted it, anyway). Mac users must be a weird bunch if they'd default to wiping server-held mail a-la POP3. I keep running afoul of my assumptions, but I haven't quite figured out where I get 'em from in the first place. Perhaps I've got a random-assumption generator. Where's the "off" switch?

You might also want to make sure there aren't any hidden (unsubscribed)

What's the significance of your use of "unsubscribed" in this case? I mean, I didn't immediately equate it to hidden in terms of files. Was that a reference to a file-system attribute or to a mail file/folder attribute, or something else?

folders on the IMAP server. Many email clients will default to a setting of "show only subscribed folders", so if your email has been moved to another folder on the server, they would become "hidden"

I had Konq set to "show hidden files" when I was looking, but of course I only looked in places I thought likely. Maybe I'll try searching from the command line for ???????????????????????????.???? unless somebody has a more useful pattern to use for Maildir files? Thanks, Kevin (with a big hole in his archive now) The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com