Keith Bainbridge writes: >Perhaps a more secure email provider is my best course? Yes. I suggest Newsguy or another for-pay email provider. Do as I do and configure Fetchmail to download all your new mail every five minutes (and delete it on the server, of course). The snoops rely on people using IMAP or Webmail and leaving all their mail on the server forever. -- John Hasler jhasler@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA