Thanks for your reply - I was being sarcastic. I have tried disabling Norton
but to no effect, the problem still persists. The error is: 'your pop3server
has not responded in somany seconds (its a timeout figure that can easily be
changed) Would you like to wait for the server to respond, or stop?'

"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
news:ei8KXjjEGHA.1816@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> (a part of wonderful Norton Security)
>
> There is nothing wonderful about Norton, and may be your problem. Turn
> off e-mail scanning and see if that fixes it. E-mail scanning is a
> redundant layer of protection that creates havoc with OE. Your anti-virus
> will still protect you.
>
> If this does not fix your problem, post back and include the error message
> in its entirety.
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS MVP - Outlook Express
> ~IB-CA~
>
> "george" <NOSPAM@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:dpjvp3$hs3$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
>> Hi All
>> My computer recently developed a strange problem with outlook express.
>> When I try to send/receive e-mails, it connects to the server,
>> 'mail.btinternet.com' - it then hangs and doesn't do anything until it
>> produces a message 'no response from server - wait however long or stop?
>> Which ever option I try, it still doesn't do anything. Now, I am posting
>> this message via same outlook express and news.btinternet.com and I use
>> exactly same mail account/server/security and everything else as I do on
>> my other machine, but it's just not working to download e-mails on this
>> machine. To make matters worse, every time I try this and want to shut my
>> machine, ccApp.exe (a part of wonderful Norton Security) hangs and makes
>> me have to power down.
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>