POP server always changes to localhost

[John]

Hello,

My outlook is having a wierd issue. I have three POP3
accounts set up to check email in Outlook. After some
point in time, all three will stop functioning because in
the E-mail accounts settings dialog my incoming mail
server will get changed to localhost, and it fails to log
in to box to pull my mail.

It appends the POP3 server name to my user name which
seems odd.

So, to summarize, my Incoming mail server (POP3) field
changes from it's usual value (something like
mail.server.com) to localhost, and my mail server gets
appended to my user name (something like
username/mail.server.com), and all three boxes stop
functioning because they can't log in and pull mail.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

John

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

It's your antivirus software. See if they offer a newer version that doesn't
rely on this clumsy proxy method for checking mail. If not, get one that is
better at it....I personally find the freebie AVG at www.grisoft.com very
nice.

Or you can disable mail scanning, although I prefer to have as many layers
of defense as possible, myself.