The following free software (which I haven't tried yet but which I linked to from Dontronics site) allows you to "prefilter" downloading email and delete it before it has loaded based on header contents. (eg PICLIST ???:-)) May be useful. http://home2.pacific.net.sg/~thantom/eremove.htm regards Russell McMahon PS SP*M is an attempt to stop existing filters removing a possibly useful message :-)