"george" <NOSPAM@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> 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?'

When Norton is set to scan email it changes the OE server settings to its
proxy. Disabling Norton doesn't reset them but turning off email scanning
should fix that. Even then you may have to reset them yourself.

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