Thanks, guys. You helped me I narrow it down...

There is no anti-spam software running on my computer and OE6 looks fine. Also Verizon says 'no spam filter'.

I looked at the headers on an email marked "SPAM" and see the following - this is common for all such emails...

(clamdscan: 0.88/1245. spamassassin: 3.1.0. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1
(127.0.0.1):SA:1(5.4/5.0):. Processed in 6.784545 secs); Fri,
30 Nov 2007 22:10:10 +0000


So I logged on to my host control panel (ipower)...

Under email, these are the settings:

spam filtering - off
tag message as spam - off


Under server info, I see that SpamAssassin modules are installed. That's as far as I can get. Sounds to me like this is the culprit, but I could not find any way to turn SpamAssasin off.

Copied from the panel...

perl version
perl, v5.8.3

installed perl modules:

Mail::SpamAssassin
Mail::SpamAssassin::ArchiveIterator
Mail::SpamAssassin::AuditMessage
Mail::SpamAssassin::AutoWhitelist
Mail::SpamAssassin::Bayes
Mail::SpamAssassin::Bayes::CombineChi
Mail::SpamAssassin::Bayes::CombineNaiveBayes
Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore
Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStoBM
Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesSto:MySQL
Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesSto:PgSQL
Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesSto:SDBM
Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesSto:SQL
Mail::SpamAssassin::Client
Mail::SpamAssassin::CmdLearn
Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf
Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf::LDAP
Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf::Parser
Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf::SQL
Mail::SpamAssassin::ConfSourceSQL
Mail::SpamAssassin::Constants
Mail::SpamAssassin:BBasedAddrList
Mail::SpamAssassin:ns
Mail::SpamAssassin:nsResolver
Mail::SpamAssassin::EncappedMessage
Mail::SpamAssassin::EncappedMIME
Mail::SpamAssassin::EvalTests
Mail::SpamAssassin::HTML
Mail::SpamAssassin::Locales
Mail::SpamAssassin::Locker
Mail::SpamAssassin::Locker::Flock
Mail::SpamAssassin::Locker::UnixNFSSafe
Mail::SpamAssassin::Locker::Win32
Mail::SpamAssassin::Logger
Mail::SpamAssassin::Logger::File
Mail::SpamAssassin::Logger::Stderr
Mail::SpamAssassin::Logger::Syslog
Mail::SpamAssassin::MailingList
Mail::SpamAssassin::Message
Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Metadata
Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Metadata::Received
Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Node
Mail::SpamAssassin::NetSet
Mail::SpamAssassin::NoMailAudit
Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgLearner
Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus
Mail::SpamAssassin::PersistentAddrList
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AccessDB
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AntiVirus
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AutoLearnThreshold
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AWL
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin:CC
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin:omainKeys
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Hashcash
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::MIMEHeader
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Pyzor
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Razor2
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::ReplaceTags
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::SpamCop
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::SPF
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Test
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::TextCat
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::WhiteListSubject
Mail::SpamAssassin::PluginHandler
Mail::SpamAssassin::Received
Mail::SpamAssassin::Replier
Mail::SpamAssassin::Reporter
Mail::SpamAssassin::SHA1
Mail::SpamAssassin::SpamdForkScaling
Mail::SpamAssassin::SQLBasedAddrList
Mail::SpamAssassin::SubProcBackChannel
Mail::SpamAssassin::TextCat
Mail::SpamAssassin::UnixLocker
Mail::SpamAssassin::Util
Mail::SpamAssassin::Util:ependencyInfo
Mail::SpamAssassin::Util::Progress
Mail::SpamAssassin::Util::RegistrarBoundaries
Mail::SpamAssassin::Win32Locker