Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It provides no
additional protection and even Symantec says it's not necessary:

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Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have
the most recent virus definitions.
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http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106

Troubleshooting error messages that you receive when you are using OL and OE
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813514
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

Charlie Bress wrote:
The error message is below

The server responded with an error. Account 'mail.comcast.net', Server
'mail.comcast.net', Protocol: POP3 Response: '-ERR AVG POP3 proxy Server:
Cannot connect to the mail server!, Port110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error
0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC90

OT: Oops! Sorry about that messed up post. I didn't realize that would
happen.

Charlie

"PA Bear" wrote in message
...
Post the complete error message.

OT: Using MS Word as your default HTML editor (IE Tools Internet
Options
Programs) to compose OE messages is not a good idea. If you must do
so,
only use ENTER to begin a new paragraph. To begin a new line, use
Shift+ENTER to avoid the unnecessary line breaks seen in your post.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org