Stefano, Your Outlook Express settings for accessing your Hotmail account should continue to work after September 1, since you are using pop3. If you were using an earlier access method supported by Hotmail, you would need to change to pop3 before September 1. Now I have a question for you: Do you have access to the "Bulk Mail" folder in Outlook Express, and is junk mail downloaded to that folder whenever you connect to your hotmail? I just switched my Outlook Express settings to pop3 access for hotmail, and I no longer get junk mail in my bulk mail folder. I have to access hotmail via the browser, and then check the junk mail folder to see if anything has mistakenly been sent there. Do you or anyone else on this list know how to get hotmail to send junk mail to the bulk mail folder in Outlook Express? Alan