> when I'm reading the mail on my imap server
> with nedmail, and I want to save a message, I get
>
> : 3 w /tmp/3
> !message disappeared

I have no idea if this is related but in the early days with gmail it would
automaticially remove messages when they where downloaded so they disappeared
as fast as you tried to read them.

Perhaps your imap server is doing somthing similar?

-Steve