IMAP

I am going absolutely mad. My home email setup has completely died, and I have no clue as to why. I receive email through chiark.greenend.org.uk. I use Netscape Communicator 4.6 (on Mac OS 8.6) to access it via IMAP. About a week ago, the NEtscape setup lost the chiark Trash folder, which screwed up my spam filters because I can't use Netscape to delete anything on chiark any more. (My filters are on Netscape.) Now, Netscape can't connect to chiark at all. I have tried the login.chiark greenend.org.uk address as well as the plain chiark.g.o.uk one, but nothing works. I am really, really confused. I can't save any mail locally any more, and so everything is stuck on chiark. This means I've lost all my list filtering, which is driving me potty. I may have to unsubscribe from a couple of lists because having to wade through them constantly instead of just when I feel like it is so annoying. I'm having to read my mail directly on chiark, using pine in a telnet or ssh session.

I don't know what to do. I don't understand what is wrong or what I did. If anyone knows what I can do or can help me, I will give you chocolate, hugs, beer, or pretty much anything else you name. I'm desperate.