There's usually a choice whether to download just headers, a portion of the email, or the whole email. I normally just get the headers on the phone (and maybe check a few emails). The headers (subject etc) is often enough to determine whether it needs looking at or not.Yup, you are right. I've changed the setting on the outlook express so that the emails stay on the server and it seems better. Quite why it takes my Nokia N8 so long to correctly download too is a mystery - or more likely an undocumented feature of Symbian!