The purpose of the 127.0.0.1 redirection is so that incoming and possibly
outgoing mail is collected by OE from a "Filtering" program or "Proxy"
installed on 127.0.0.1 which is always your own machine and sometimes called
"Localhost".

AV programs may do his with email scanning enabled, spam blockers may do
this and then when a fault develops you are stuck with silly settings. If
you have disabled email scanning then try re-enabling it again to see what
happens. Then after a reboot and a bit of use disable it again and see if
the problem continues. It may be that the disabling didn't work properly
(Seen this with Norton for sure) so although it stops the "Proxy" from
working it does not cancel the redirect.

I suppose that virus or Trojan or spam "Bot" could also use a "Proxy" to
collect email addresses and personal details from your mail traffic so you
do need to get to the cause of this.

The fact that you reset the server and the setting does not "Stick" could
also be due to the fact that something has damaged your OE identity or
perhaps a .dbx file.

Charlie
--
Still the best sites for OE details
http://www.insideoe.tomsterdam.com/
http://www.oehelp.com/

Charlie


"Sweeney" wrote in message
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I do not disagree. It just sucks for me.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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1: This problem can start at any time.

2: Outlook Express /was/ compatible with McAfee & Norton until /they/
made changes that were not compatible with Outlook Express.

EX: When Norton was owned by Peter Norton, it was an exceptional program.
After it was bought by Symantec, they decided to make improvements that
IMHO were not necessary, most as a sales come-on, like e-mail scanning.

To me, the question people should be asking is: Why do computer
manufacture's like *Dell from Hell* try to force these programs on the
consumer. They know what is going on, but will never admit it. It's money
in their pocket by including these third party programs on their OEM
custom made installation disks. Kickbacks $$$.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Sweeney" wrote in message
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Thanks. Do you have any idea why these programs interacted without
difficulty until about a week ago or so?

Meant without any disrespect, why would Microsoft distribute a product
that is not compatible with the two leading antivirus software programs?

Thanks.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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I would go with mac's suggestion.

I use, and recommend, AVG Free:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5
or:
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/40/lng/ww

When prompted, choose Custom Installation and *uncheck* e-mail scanning
when you see the option.

Norton, and McAfee, products are not Outlook Express friendly, and I
don't know of any OE-MVP that would recommend using them.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Sweeney" wrote in message
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McAfee. It came pre-installed on my Dell. I have disabled "Scan
e-mail and
attachments" and "SpamKiller." Is there another feature I need to
disable?

Thanks.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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What programs are you using for your anti-virus and spam?
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Sweeney" wrote in message
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Sadly, I have disabled the e-mail scanning and the spam filter and I
am still having the server setting reset to 127.0.0.1 every time I
reboot. Any suggestions regarding how I might rid my self of this
malady would be most appreciated. Thanks.


"Sweeney" wrote in message
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Thanks. I understand now. Much appreciated.


"Charlie Tame" wrote in message
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Yes it will as long as you have the real-time protection on.

What your AV is trying to do is redirect outlook express to ask
for mail via a small mail server program the AV has installed
(127.0.0.1 is always the address of your local machine, the one
you are typing on) so that the AV's "Proxy" server can filter out
virus infected emails. Unfortunately OE does not like the timing
errors this can introduce and so it is a system that is prone to
causing major OE problems.

Your AV uses the same definitions for this as it does for normal
real-time protection, so the coverage is no greater but the risk
of damaging OE goes up considerably.

The real-time part will stop anything executing or perhaps even
being saved to disk that is dangerous although you will probably
spot bad emails first. Always remember though that no AV system
can stop a brand new virus that's just been released so you remain
your computer's best protection.

Charlie


"Sweeney" wrote in message
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Yes. 127.0.0.1. That is exactly it. Thank you so much.
Strange. I have been using McAfee for nearly a year now and this
problem just surfaced a couple of days ago. I must have received
a product update that created this problem.

Why do you say that the e-mail scan function of the anti-virus
software serves no useful purpose? Will my anti-virus program
still catch e-mails and attachments that contain viruses?

Thanks again.

" mac" wrote in message
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"JEANNE Sweeney" wrote in message
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Every time I shut down Windows XP and restart, Outlook Express
for some reason changes the IP address of the incoming mail
server (POP3) to a dummy address. I have to go in manually
each time and change the incoming mail server (POP3) address to
the correct address for my 6 e-mail accounts with two different
internet service providers. These settings will remain no
matter how many times I open and close Outlook Express until
the next time I turn the computer off. When I restart, the
bogus IP address for the incoming mail servers (POP3) are back.
It is the same bogus IP address for both internet service
providers.

Does anyone have any advice for how I can get the true IP
addresses for the incoming mail servers (POP3) to stick when I
change them? The way I have been doing it is to go into
Tools-Accounts-Properties. Thanks.



127.0.0.1?
This is being caused by your anti virus software, disable the
section of it ONLY that scans incoming and outgoing mail, it
serves no useful purpose.
Spam filtering programs have been known to cause it also.

--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. OE. [DTS]