Hi Robert Mailwasher was suggested to me a long while back so I took a look at it but have never fired it in anger <g> I could not then or now see the point in it Tell me if I am wrong You set up mailwasher which accepts all your mail, you can select certain addresses to be on the approved list so they are released without intervention to your inbox, but for all others you have to go to mailwasher to check that all are required (or not) before they are released Once all released you can read or not from your inbox At present I use sky (gmail) downloaded to Outlook Express, the vast majority of spam gets redirected to the spam folder before it gets to me, at worst I get perhaps one spam per day which is not to much of a trial to press delete on, everything else I receive I want About once a month I go to my sky account email and check the spam folder, once in a blue moon I find one that should not be there but thats quite unusual So how does mailwasher take a step out? as far as I can see it adds one in More than happy to be proved wrong, always willing to learn, perhaps I have misunderstood it? Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > Nivard > > Since you have must have used MailWasher, you know that it actually > eliminates > a step. That of deleting all the spam from your Inbox, because it never > gets downloaded. > > Bob Wilson