Thank you Eugene, Alan, Chris et al. I, and many others appreciate your efforts to provide a first class email service through Thunderbird. We are also most grateful for your patient responses to our naive queries. The last time I did any programming was QDOS - when you would still adjust the tuning of your car by ear! My checking around had told me that the POP protocol is ancient and seriously restrictive and that it takes a lot of innovative thinking (or trial and error) to overcome its limitations.
To the point. I check what junk exists via Hotmail and/or a seriously malfunctioning Outlook trial - looking in their Junk mail folders. I search a variety of Tbird folders for the junk and actually expected it to be in the Inbox but it isn't there or anywhere I have searched. I removed all filters in Hotmail but easily set up a number of filters in Tbird which seem to work well. I think that has allowed me to avoid the complications that Alan was addressing. Is that an option worth bringing to others' attention. I appreciate that if and when the junk starts coming through I will immediately want to filter that but sufficient to the day is the evil thereof! I don't think my Tbird is missing anything that is classed as non-junk by Hotmail ie that is in the Hotmail inbox. Of course, >95% of the Hotmail junk is true junk but there is just the odd email that is not. I confess I haven't properly digested all the emails in this thread but will work on it. Sandy
