MS Outlook, or Outlook Express? If OE:

Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer
of protection that eats up CPUs, slows down sending and receiving, and
causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes
and has even been responsible for lose of messages. Your up-to-date A/V
program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

How to troubleshoot error messages that you receive when try to send and
receive e-mail in Outlook and in Outlook Express:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...14&Product=oex
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"john raker" vzz wrote in message
...

Quite suddenly today, Outlook won't download a message and I get this
error
message;

Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes
for
this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of
inactivity. Account: 'pop.ntlworld.com', Server: 'pop.ntlworld.com',
Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F


Is there any way I can stop the message, which seems not to be
downloading,
from blocking my other emails in the queue.

I am using outlook express 6 and have all the relevant updates. Up to this
afternoon my emails were downloading fine.