My wife & I both use TBird 1.5.0.5, mine on a desktop, hers on her work laptop. Each is running several email accounts, she has a work email ("Smartermail) 1 gmail account & 1 hotmail account (via "hotmail popper") I have an ISP based account (comcast) a gmail & 6 hotmails (again, hotmail popper). Lately, we have both been getting repeated dl's of the inbox, even though the messages have already been dl'd. I've seen this on and off with hotmail int he past, but now her work email is doing it as well. Settings for all accounts are the same, including "leave messages on server". I've always used these settings, but again the problem is intermittent. Is this a TBird issue, or could it be that just by coincidence my wife's work email is now also doing this behavior I had previously only seen from, hotmail? TIA Dan