Occasionally, my e-mail messages notification line (near the top of the window) will display some strange gibberish instead of a number.  I tried to simulate it in this subject title, but those are not the exact characters.

After reading through some messages in here, I decided it might be connected to the POP3 email checker, so I turned it off.  As soon as I turned it off, the display returned to normal showing "No new e-mail messages".  Because I'm not really that familiar with the POP3 email checker (I've never received notification, even though I set it up a couple of weeks ago) I figured maybe I had some Yahoo mail, so I went to check, but I didn't have any.

To really see if there was a connection here, I went and re-enabled the POP3 checker and gave it a minute to go check.  Sure enough, the gibberish is back, with different characters, though.

Perhaps I have the wrong server in my POP3 setup (yahoo.com???).  I dunno.