Jeff's xena.pref had this line: mail.storelist=pop3://kgalyan@popd.accesscom.com,berkeley The pop3 store didn't work. When changed to this: mail.storelist=pop3\://kgalyan@popd.accesscom.com,berkeley It did work. This is also the way the mail.storelist is escaped in my xena.pref: mail.storelist=berkeley,pop3\://grendel@130.89.235.121,imap\://edwin@idefix.stud ent.utwente.nl,news\://news.student.utwente.nl Is this a bug somewhere in the prefs saving code?

Okay, I'm taking this one on. I think it's in how different OSes handle things. Still, the same prefs file should work on all systems ... I'm on it.

This is a Java platform issue. With Java 2, characters are propertly escaped in the properties file. I guess it was the decision from JavaSoft. For example, my user name stored in xena.pref used to be "Giao Nguyen" (sans quotes) on Java 1.1 platform. As of Java 2, it becamse "Giao\ Nguyen" with the white space escaped. If that's the case then the prefs code should search for the ":" and escape it. How it's going to be done remains in question. The suggestion is to use Java 2 or hack the xena.pref file until an adequate fix can be achieved.

LATER is deprecated per bug 35839.

-> wfm