homealone

I've not tried inviting myself

I'm not sure, but I think if you set up the forwarding from ntl to any other address, using the 'self help' link in my earlier post, then it will update your account without trying to load the inbox, all subsequent incoming mail should then forward to the new addy.

I seem to remember reading something about international characters being used for spam/phishing, I wonder if that is why these are getting stuck in ntl's server???