Phillip,
I seem to have put a stop to the downloading of most of them by setting up an email rule to delete,from the server,any email over 60KB in size.
When you've set up the rule click on it,to highlight it,then click on MOVE UP repeatedly to move it to the top of your list of rules.
Of course this rule will be of no use to you if you normally receive emails of this sort of size that you actually do want.
To set up the rule I did this.
I clicked on TOOLS/MESSAGE RULES/MAIL/NEW.
Then I clicked on the box,in Section 1,next to WHERE THE MESSAGE SIZE IS MORE THAN SIZE to select it.
Then I clicked on the underlined SIZE and typed in 60 and clicked OK.
Then I moved to Section 2 and clicked the box next to DELETE IT FROM THE SERVER,to select that option.
Then I clicked OK then OK,on the next page,to create the rule.
Then I clicked on that rule,to highlight it,then kept on clicking on MOVE UP until that rule was at the top of all my MESSAGE RULES.
Then I clicked on OK again and that was it all done.
If this method doesn't suit you.
Load up Outlook Express and remove,if it's there,the tick against 'When Outlook Express starts, go directly to my Inbox' .
Click on INBOX then right-click an empty bit of the TOOLBAR and click on CUSTOMIZE and find the icon called PREVIEW and double-click it to add it to the TOOLBAR.
When you've done this you can click on the PREVIEW icon to turn on or turn off the PREVIEW PANE.
You can then turn it off,before you go on-line,and let all your emails download then delete any that look 'suspicious' - without them being opened when you click on their headers to highlight them before deleting them - then turn it back on to view the rest of them.
If you're still not sure about any of the 'safe' ones then - with the Preview Pane still turned off - you can right-click the header and then click PROPERTIES/DETAILS/MESSAGE SOURCE and see what the email contains then decide to either delete it or open it.
John Clifford Hole [MVP] of Enfield Middlesex
