Thanks, BigAl,

By the time I saw your reply, I’d already gone the add/remove route, and that seems to work just fine. What the heck, my ISP uses excellent VirusGuard anyway – and probably 99 percent of email viruses are in attachments, which I hope we’ve all got enough sense to avoid (exe’s and other executables, anyway).

And it was even simpler that I thought – I’d forgotten that if you remove the email provider, rather than simply stop it, your mailer’s server settings automatically get set back to what they were before avast got into the act.

Best,
Mike