Hi All, Kmail shows some strange behaviour when I have my home directory mounted via nfs: I fire up Kmail, and d/load the mail queue (say 50 messages). After reading them they are all marked as read - just as you'd expect. Ten minutes later, Kmail autochecks for mail and some more (3 say) turn up. All of a sudden, it reports 53 unread mails - the ones I read before are now marked unread! Once the mails are marked read, compacting the folder makes the marking 'stick'. This does not happen when I am logged in at the machine where my home directory is local. That is - the machine in my office, which I use most of the time, holds my home directory and Kmail functions fine. It also exports my home directory, but when I log on to another machine I get the problem above. Kmail is storing mails as maildir format. The filesystem in exported with these options: rw,no_root_squash,sync,no_wdelay,no_all_squash I added the sync and no_wdelay in an attempt to solve the problem (thought it might be a timeout problem or somesuch) but they made no difference. It is imported with: defaults,_netdev,sync The permissions are all OK. Any suggestions welcomed.. Cheers Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg