Hi Bonnie,

Yes, I can see that would be an irritation. But there is an alternative: Set Mail only to check Manually, then just hit the button when you 're in a mail-reading mood. You'll get a manageable clutch of mails arriving, and you'll soon see which you want to keep and which not. After a long tour or holiday you'll get a lot, but then you would have done anyway - and you'd still need to check them all anyway.

Real messages get buried in spam with your current method too - it just happens in the Junk box rather than the in box, so I can't really see the difference.

But obviously what works for you works for you.

Tom