I've noted that a large spam message exceeding the available space left on hotmail blocks all following emails even if they come from "trusted" sources(in address book) This problem would affect any webbased email, Hotmail in particular, since Hotmail is one of the smallest with 2 MB. The fix would be to force deletion of messages in "Trash Can" and allow only messages from "trusted" sources .... Filtering the size of spam messages would also help, allowing to set the size in kb. So certain messages containing attachments would be rejected immediately .... Regards Stefan Demetz stesa@talk21.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.320 / Virus Database: 179 - Release Date: 30/01/2002