Tony Meyer wrote:

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The following were tested on a PC running WINXP SP2 all patches and Office 2003 SP1 all patches.

Thanks for that.

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FWIW: I tried Inboxer 2.1 since it's based on the Spambayes engine and it doesn't hang.

Interesting. That indicates that even if this is an Outlook bug as I suspect, there must be a way to work around it. Perhaps if we can't figure it out Sean (of Inboxer) might be willing to contribute the fix.

Knowing if the problem goes away if we go back far enough will be useful information. I wonder if something may have changed in recent versions of pywin32 or py2exe? -- Kenny Pitt