Do not download it from server leaves it on the server indefinitely. If you
choose this, eventually you will reach your server's quota and you will stop
receiving messages.

Delete it from server does just that. It doesn't download, and if you
checked your mail via your ISP's Website, the message will be gone.

Why do you want to bounce a message? If you get spam that has a munged
address and you bounced it back, you would end up in a eternal cycle of the
message being bounced, any you getting an undeliverable mail message from
the postmaster. At the very least, if on the off chance it was not a munged
address, you would be telling the spammer to Bring It On! This is a valid
e-mail address.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"JDoe" wrote in message
...
When "do not download it from server" is chosen as an OE6 "message rule,"
then what happens to that incoming email message? Is it deleted
eventually
while on the server? Does it stay on the server ad infinitum? What
happens
to it?

In that same regard, what happens to an incoming email message when
"delete
it from server" is chosen?

The bottom line is that I want to know WHEN (and how) an incoming email
message can be bounced BACK to the sender.

Thanks for responses.

OE6, XP Home SP1