Outlook Express Connections keep changing themselves

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Newly installed Outlook Express - installed or at least modified by Wandoo
broadband setup CD-ROM. POP3 address on intallation was a numeric URL.
Whatever it was, it didn't appear to connect with anything and no e-mail was
downloaded.

I subsequently set up various accounts, copying the settings and POP3
address etc from a working version of OE on another computer.

The addresses I give for POP3 will not stick for any of the accounts. If I
type them in manually each time I run OE, I can download my e-mail from
various sources, but otherwise nothing is read and no error message is
issued.

Whenever I re-run the program the POP3 address has been re-written (as the
original numeric URL)

Help! this is not nice.
 
Newly installed Outlook Express - installed or at least modified by Wandoo
broadband setup CD-ROM. POP3 address on intallation was a numeric URL.
Whatever it was, it didn't appear to connect with anything and no e-mail was
downloaded.

I subsequently set up various accounts, copying the settings and POP3
address etc from a working version of OE on another computer.

The addresses I give for POP3 will not stick for any of the accounts. If I
type them in manually each time I run OE, I can download my e-mail from
various sources, but otherwise nothing is read and no error message is
issued.

Whenever I re-run the program the POP3 address has been re-written (as the
original numeric URL)

Help! this is not nice.
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You likely installed a third party spam blocker, email notifier, virus
checker, etc... that sits as a proxy between your email client and your
email server. It needs to change your email settings so that your email
client uses this proxy program. Is the IP Address that your client changes
to 127.0.0.1? If so, this is probably what is happening and it must be this
way for your third party program to work.
 
BobC said:
You likely installed a third party spam blocker, email notifier, virus
checker, etc... that sits as a proxy between your email client and your
email server. It needs to change your email settings so that your email
client uses this proxy program. Is the IP Address that your client changes
to 127.0.0.1? If so, this is probably what is happening and it must be this
way for your third party program to work.
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Thanks for that information - 127.0.0.1 is indeed the IP. But set this way
I get no e-mail, so having a spam blocker is a bit pointless really unless (I
naively think) whatever it is knows where to look for my e-mail, and it
obviously it doesn't. It's a newly purchased system, and it's stuffed full
of mysterious software I didn't order, know nothing about, and have no
documentation for. This is, I am told, progress.

I'm not sure how I will track down what's causing the problem, but I guess
I'll manage eventually.
 
Just to say I did find what I was looking for (McAffee Securityy Centre,
which does many mysterious things without asking me) and I have now
configured it properly. Thanks again for the clue.
 
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