I make NO apologies for double posting, as my last reply was to a direct question.

Pooh:

If you are suspicious of the contens of an email, I say telnet it.
You then gave detailed instructions

1. Open up a command prompt
2. run: telnet mail.mymailserver.com 110
3. once it connects: user yourusername
3. after the user name is in: pass yourpassword
4. after that: list
5. Then find the message you want to view: retr 3 (replace 3 with the message number)
Now you can view the actual contents in plaintext without worrying about the attachment or embedded virus'
In the real world that does not happen old chap..........honest...errr have you read many of the posts here in the newbie section?

You are not WRONG....just inappropriate............."telnet it" ...when a lot of people I know couldn't even spell "trojan"

My point is that this is also a family forum, and we have a lot of guests?..that is way too over the top IMHO? By the way...........I downloaded about 1500 messages from a little attended mailserver of mine...I was just imagining doing what you suggested with them (OK 99% SPAM=delete immediately)

Horses for courses is what I say?

Anyone else care to comment?

Cheers