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I am running Windows 2000 with SP3 and have been having a weird issue with my e-mail. I can check my e-mail once and only once when my system first starts up...I can press send and receive over and over and it will check it fine but as soon as I leave Outlook express it stops working. Every e-mail check after that times out. I have tried using Outlook, outlook express, and ICQ's e-mail check. I have installed both I.E. 5.5 and 6.0 and it makes no change. I have tried doing a selective startup so that nothing ran when my computer started but it still does the same. Every other internet function works fine. I had both windows ME and XP installed before and haven't run into this problem before. Any suggestions would be helpful.

I am using mozilla as a webbrowser which has a ton of features...One feature however does not seem to work quite right. The e-mail feature only works within the first 5 minuites of the time my computer first boots up. After 5 minuites it just sits there and says "Connecting" but never connects to my mail server. I can still use the internet and can check my mail through www.mail2web.com so I know it has to be something wrong with my computer setup. Any Ideas? I am running Win2k Pro, SP3

Yes...I downloaded version 1.1 and 1.0 it in an attempt to correct the same problem I was having with Outlook Express. I got it working earlier today by reinstalling SP3 and then after the second restart it worked fine. About an hour later Automatic Update downloaded a security patch for Internet Explorer 6 and when it restarted it no longer was fixed... I tried to duplicate what I had done earlier but it did not work the second time. Any other ideas!!