hmm ok.. just quickly browsed over my [162! :] filters and saw one single that had no filter definition ie to/from/subject etc but the filter 'instruction' was set to delete.. was pretty near to the bottom so very recent. how weird is that? I cleared it so will see if this forum reply will go to trash. so far they've all been going there. literally nothing has been going to my inbox except manually... posting reply... fingers crossed.