That type of problem is usually caused by interference from a non-
compatible antivirus program. Which antivirus are you running?
As a minimum, email scanning in the antivirus must be turned off,
although that may not be sufficient to eliminate all bad effects.
In a worst case scenario, your antivirus may need to be uninstalled.
Email scanning in any antivirus must be disabled, for reasons
explained here:
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm
If no improvement after disabling email scanning, consider upgrading
to Windows Live Mail, because it is less prone to suffering bad effects
from overly intrusive antivirus programs:
http://download.live.com/wlmail
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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)
"Al Johnson" <Al
(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:A831DA3C-4795-42D6-945C-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I have always gotten my e-mails automatically until December 5th. All of a
> sudden my e-mails stopped automatically coming in. Now I have to go to
> Send/Receive and click on my e-mail address to get my messages. Does anyone
> know what is happening? My option says to automatically receive and check
> for new messages every 5 minutes. Stumped. Al Johnson