[glyn]

because of the amount of junk mail i get, i have to set outlook to check every 10 minutes and that's 24 hours a day - (thank god i've got a good spam handler!) -

i went thru the telnet route, there doesn't appear to be anything stuck - i'm still getting duplicates but it's not on every email, just some (all spam, never proper stuff) -

the other thing is that much of the spam is not even addressed to any of my email accounts - if i open the occasional one, it's more than likely addressed to some other account @ ntlworld - i've never been sure why they come to me ......