***** FDG => Federico Di Gregorio [...] FDG> Question: what happened? I guess you had your home directory as the mail directory. But, even then, you should have told Gnus to expire mail immediately, as it usually don't expire mail (*) newer than a week. (*): as you probably now, Gnus `mail' may be really anything, even data files. It has never happened to me (I'm crossing fingers :-). Cheers, -- Davide G. M. Salvetti -- IW5DZC <http://www.linux.it/%7Esalve/>