I've been using sylpheed-claws for several months, and it's been working for me. I think, judging by your description and error, that you have a corrupt mailbox. You may think that you deleted all sylpheed-related configuration files, but I bet you missed a directory. Type the following at the command line.
$ rm ~/.sylpheed* $ mv ~/Mail ~/Mail-bak $ sylpheed-claws Do you still get any errors? -Brandon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]