thanks for your inputs. I am not concerned about the bandwidth wastage in pulling the crap from the server but I do like the idea of returning said crap to the originator, except that is probably some other poor sod's hijacked account so it will probably not stop it being sent.
perhaps I should forward all mail to my Yahoo mailbox, let that do the spam filter then forward it back to another pop3 I have for emergency use.........
There must be a way to remove/delete it from Thunderbird automatically without it jamming up the deleted items folder. How can a single message jam up the whole deleted items folder? I don't understand. I wonder what happens if I open a specific "crap" folder and put it into there, after all, it does not jam the inbox folder.
Rans6....