An aquaintance persists in sending me e-mails of photographs, puzzles etc which I do not want and which take a long time to down load. I have tried "block sender" but my server just puts them into my deleted folder, which takes just as long. What can I do other than changing my e-mail address? Pat Marsden
You don't say which e-mail program you are using, but it may well be possible to add a rule that deletes this sender's e-mails or does not download them from the server. (In Outlook Express, go to Tools and select Message Rules.) Alternatively, some mail programs, such as Eudora, will download headers rather than whole messages. However, I think your best bet is to use Mailwasher. This will download the headers and also try to identify spam emails, so you can avoid downloading anything you don't want. Run Mailwasher, clean out the rubbish, then run your mail program to collect what's left.
