See Bruce's reply.

But if it's a message gumming up the works, you may be able to use
Telnet to look at your server mail box and optionally get rid of any
problem message. You can find these Telnet instructions at
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...pop3telnet.htm
Or your mail service may offer a web interface that would allow you to
delete the problem message. If not, you might be able to use
http://mail2web.com or http://www.mailstart.com for this function (if
your ISP allows outside access to their POP3 mail server).


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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"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.