unwanted/un-handleable emails
No experience of mailWasher, etc but have you tried going to your ISP homepage and looking at the contents of your mail-box. May not be universal but I can go to Orange.fr welcome page and look in my mailbox and preview the mails contained and delete them as appropriate without opening OE and having to download them.
This has been helpful in the past with deleting mails that have caused downloading->dropping out->downloading problems in OE.
HTH
Dave.d
Edit
I found this problem when I was on dial-up, if I remember correctly, when opening OE it attempts to download all mails into your Inbox so you can then open which one you wish.
If any download fails it tries again to download with the result you are finding, going to your ISP homepage and reviewing the mails means you can review/delete whichever you wish before downloading when you open OE.
Last edited by daved123; 18th June 2009 at 19:29.
Reason: made more appropriate