Cheers MB.. I'll give Thunderbird a go
Paul... it was really weird. Everything was there this morning - I had rules set up to redirect mail coming to certain accnts to go into different folders.
THen i turned on the PC tonite and suddenly these two folders (one of which was nested in the other) have both vanished - no trace, nothing.
It's very very odd and I have no idea why it happened... ? I had no boxes to check unfortuanately - it's soooo weird! I think this windows installation needs to be wiped anyway, it's starting to be erratic as windows has a habit of being
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