I use MailWasher, and like it. I do have the advantage of dual monitors. I have Mailasher running all the time on my second monitor. I have it set to make a sound when a new message come in. I also have my email program ( Calypso) on line all the time, but have it set to check mail after 120 min. When I hear the beep I glance over to the MailWasher screen and see if it is something that requires action; Delete, filter, or add to friends. If it is something that is from my 'friends', I click on the 'check mail button' in my email program. Unfortunately my ISP will not allow me to bounce messages:<( Mike ~ It is a good day if I learned something new. Editor MikesWhatsNews see a sample on my web page http://www3.telus.net/mikebike <mikeswhatsnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> See my Anti-Virus pages ~ http://virusinfo.hackfix.org *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 08/07/2002 at 9:46 PM Jim wrote: I rarely start mailwasher because of the multiple steps one has to go through. I have my mailer set to pop for mail every 2 minutes while it's running. If I start mailwasher and go through the mail once then have it start my mailer, which will get whatever mail is there then plus whatever NEW mail that comes in while it is in the process of getting the mail, which almost always happens. So those new mesages never got processed by mailwasher. It would be nice if mailwasher or someother program would SIFT the mail first, bounce the ones iin my bounce list, then get the 'good' email and pass it to the mail program behind the scenes, this way the mail program would never actually get the mail from the pop server directly. I do wonder if the bounce feature really does much good. At minimum it saves on the downloading of those messages which is nill for me, at minimum it takes a VERY long time for me to manually scan through the headers to decide which messages to bounce, so I'm inclined to just let my mailer pop all the messages and pass them through the filters in the mailer itself where I can rather easily modify the filter to circular file the garbage. What I'd really like is a spam spammer option, that is, build a list of spammers addresses, and any junk mail that comes in would be automatically forwarded to all the spammer addresses as thou it was sent directly from the spammer, leaving out my email address and all the other mail server addresses. Only spammers should be sent spam. -Jim- To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/