No error messages except the Outlook frozen message with the end program doesn't work. My layman's logic now says I have an XP problem or some conflict with other programs. I have used products to clean registry - cleanup, etc. I had a spare drive - reformatted, installed XP and went through the ten years of updates, installed MS 2003, configured outlook and it works!!!Įverything worked on the other drive since my upgrade of MS office/Outlook 2010 until about the time we had a large update to AVAST! - I have the current version of AVAST! installed. When I removed each of the programs, no problems arose with deletion of files. I have worked with Internet Provider and password and other settings are correct - verified multiple times. I tried Thunderbird, it has same problem but doesn't lock up. same problem except the MS products crash and have to user the end program. I have copies of MS Office 2003 with outlook, same problem, also 2007 with Outlook Express, and 2010 with outlook express. I even extended my time to max and still doesn't finish. Problem: email starts loading, mail client "sees" mail on webserver (), it loads the first email and receives in bytes/min instead of kb/second and never finishes because the server times out.
I consider AVAST my last ditch effort before scrubbing my hard drive and starting over. Not sure if my problem is Avast! related but here goes. I didn't go back and check for that, but if you are so inclined you could. I mention this because after I saw the avast behavior I began to wonder if avast was trying to get creative too. This of course can result in information leaks to parties that shouldn't see such information and it can also result in undesirable if not flat out wrong settings. IIRC, it does this via several steps (check for local configuration file, then check remote server passing to it the email address, then check Mozilla site passing to it the email server domain name, then try some logical guesses). One thing you too would be aware of is that Thunderbird tries to get fancy and help noobs automatically configure their server settings. I don't know why this is, but I think it should be preventable. Namely, that while testing a ThunderbirdServer secure connection first (prior to bringing MailShield into the picture) avast 6 created its own MailShield rules which were also wrong (port at least, maybe more can't remember). OP: FWIW, I too recently saw something that seems consistent with what you are describing.
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