yes, absolutely wonderful. Short text and/or PDF documents will still display, but it ain't like the HTML problem. Turn it off and the email world becomes a lot more tolerable. Paul On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 11:38 AM, Brian Pearce wrote: > > Under Mail's preferences (under "Mail" in the menu bar), in "Viewing," > uncheck the box that "Display images and embedded objects in HTML > messages". Easy as that.