Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer
of protection that eats up CPUs and causes a multitude of problems such as
time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A/V program will
continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

If still no joy, go to Earthlink's Website and log on to WebMail and delete
the offending message there.

If that is not an option and if it is due to the size of a message, create
the following message rule and uncheck it when you're done.

Tools | Message Rules | Mail | New.

Box 1: Check - Where the message size is more than size
Box 2: Check - Delete it from server
Box 3: Click on Size and choose a size. 50KB should be sufficient, but you
can change it at any time.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~


"John & Mary Cook" wrote in message
...
I currently have somthing stuck in my inbox. When trying to download 115
incoming messages; OE stops at message 8 or 9 and then in 60 seconds times
out. Has anyone had this problem? Any suggestions?

Thank you,

J T Cook