I keep my email on my server, and read it using dovecot/imap on my laptop . I've been having a problem which seems to be getting worse lately, where I cannot see a few recent email messages - the message is listed, but when I click on it the page is blank. I've also found kmail crashing more often than it used to do. [I'm running Fedora-8, with the latest updated versions of all applications.] I wonder if anyone else has been meeting this problem? It's rather spasmodic, in my case - the email may well re-appear when I next run kmail . I'm not sure if one can delete dovecot or kmail index files without bad consequences? Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.