Something keeps changing mail settings

[Paul Geczy]

In accounts, properties, servers

My incoming POP3 mail server setting and account name
setting are unstable. Soemthing keeps changing them. The
incoming mail server is being changed to "localhost" and
the account name keeps being changed to have my e-mail
address appended onto the end of it.

Very vexing and frustrating matter.

Running Outlook 2000 (9.0.0.2711) and Outlook Express 5
(5.00.2615.200) Running five machines in peer to peer
home network. This is happ[enbijg to th4e two machiunes
that use OPutlook and Outlook Express as mail, managers.

Anybody seen or heard of this before?

Paul Geczy

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

It's usually an antivirus program set to scan incoming e-mail that does
that -- either that or a proxy server. Try temporarily disabling the
scan on incoming mail and see if the problem goes away. Also check with
your antivirus program vendor and see if there's something you can do to
make it stop changing your server names.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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