I still think it's Norton Anti-Spam since you did have a rule put there by
Norton. I also bet that the rule is back. I can't tell you how to turn off
Anti-spam because I don't allow Norton or McAfee into the building, but it
shouldn't be hard. Unfortunately, I also don't know much about IMAP
accounts, so I don't know what the next step is.

The Group Messages by conversation question was because of something I've
seen in OE6 only when IE7 is installed, so if you never had that checked and
don't have IE7 it's irrelevant.

"sjm" wrote in message
...

I'm using OE6, and I never use the 'Group by Conversation' View - it is
unchecked. I feel as if I'm deliberately trying to be hard to get along
with
:-)

I have an IMAP account, and I notice that as OE checks for messages the
IMAP
Inbox momentarily 'bolds' and a '1' appears in parentheses as though
there's
a new message - at the same moment as the icon appears and the sound would
play if I hadn't turned it off. It 'unbolds' and the (1) disappears
immediately. The POP3 Inbox doesn't change at all.

Is that a helpful clue...? I don't think this used to happen before last
week when I loaded Norton 2007 (or something else happened - maybe a
recent
MS upgrade...?)

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:

"sjm" wrote in message
...
Thank you Frank. I had tried - and just tried again - turning off the
Norton
email scanning.

I've removed the 'Message Rule' that I found Norton had inserted - I
don't
know where else to find any anti-spam tool - perhaps I haven't got that
feature?

I'm still getting false alarms every time OE checks for messages -

Ate you using IE7?
Try going to View | Current View while in a mail box and unchecking Group
by
conversation.