Also, the sender of these large files is not really a friend if told to stop and does not.
First, call the sender and tell them bluntly what the problem is and tell them they must stop doing
this.
If they don't stop, go to your web mail access and find the ISP filter options and black list this
sender.

"Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM" wrote in message
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Go to the Webmail page for the account and delete it there. Or else call the email provider and
ask them to delete ot.

"John Brown" wrote in message
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Oh damn...so no way to do this?

"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
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If the download is stopped and there were messages downloaded before the large message, the
messages will download again because messages are not marked as downloaded until the download
completes.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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If you click Send/Receive, even if the process has started, there is a dialog box with a Stop
button. Perhaps that way? Or he could just terminate the connection.

The result would be that the message is still on the server. I would assume he has a message
rule to Delete it from server for messages larger than X size that is normally unchecked. If he
checks the rule and downloads again, the large message will be removed from the server and not
downloaded.

"John Brown" wrote in message
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Friend is on dial up...from time to time he receives e mail messages with large attachments.
Once he starts to download such but decides he wants to terminate it because eg the file is
too big and is taking forever to down load...how does he do that? He's with Orange Service
Provider and uses Outlook Express for mail.