Vista POP3 email accounts stop functioning

[NL]

I've looked at every internet post on this I can find and still nothing of
value so I'll state my specific environment and see if anyone has seen the
same problem.
(1) Vista Basic with Windows Mail - this problem has been with me since
going to Vista on an new Toshiba laptop
(2) 6 email accounts in Mail, 5 POP3, 1 IMAP
(3) Boot up, everything fine for anywhere between 24 and 48 hours, then the
POP3 accounts stop with error message "Your server has unexpectedly
terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems,
network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: XXXXXX, Server:
XXXX.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number:
0x800CCC0F
(4) Trend Micro 2007 anti-virus software doing only inbound email scanning
(5) This Vista machine sits next to a Windows XP system with the same email
configuration and anti-virus software and never sees the problem
(6) Reboot is the only way to get the POP3 accounts functioning.

Thanks for anyone who reads this.

 

[Alias]

I've looked at every internet post on this I can find and still nothing of
value so I'll state my specific environment and see if anyone has seen the
same problem.
(1) Vista Basic with Windows Mail - this problem has been with me since
going to Vista on an new Toshiba laptop
(2) 6 email accounts in Mail, 5 POP3, 1 IMAP
(3) Boot up, everything fine for anywhere between 24 and 48 hours, then the
POP3 accounts stop with error message "Your server has unexpectedly
terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems,
network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: XXXXXX, Server:
XXXX.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number:
0x800CCC0F
(4) Trend Micro 2007 anti-virus software doing only inbound email scanning
(5) This Vista machine sits next to a Windows XP system with the same email
configuration and anti-virus software and never sees the problem
(6) Reboot is the only way to get the POP3 accounts functioning.

Thanks for anyone who reads this.

Disable the lame Trend Micro email scanning on both computers. It does
NOTHING but cause problems. I would also remove Trend Micro and put the
free version of Avast! on both computers. Get it at www.avast.com. Trend
Micro, Norton and McAfee should be avoided like the plague. Being as
Trend Micro is famous for not catching viruses, I would do a boot virus
scan with Avast after getting all the updates.

You might also want to consider dumping Windows Mail and Outlook Express
for Thunderbird, a far superior email program that is very easy to back
up and restore, also free. www.mozilla.com/thunderbird

Alias

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

I've looked at every internet post on this I can find and still nothing of
value so I'll state my specific environment and see if anyone has seen the
same problem.
(1) Vista Basic with Windows Mail - this problem has been with me since
going to Vista on an new Toshiba laptop
(2) 6 email accounts in Mail, 5 POP3, 1 IMAP
(3) Boot up, everything fine for anywhere between 24 and 48 hours, then
the
POP3 accounts stop with error message "Your server has unexpectedly
terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server
problems,
network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: XXXXXX, Server:
XXXX.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number:
0x800CCC0F
(4) Trend Micro 2007 anti-virus software doing only inbound email scanning
(5) This Vista machine sits next to a Windows XP system with the same
email
configuration and anti-virus software and never sees the problem
(6) Reboot is the only way to get the POP3 accounts functioning.

Thanks for anyone who reads this.

Just to back up Alias:

Email scanning should be turned off in any anti-virus. Also exclude EML
files from the scan. It provides no
protection not provided by the regular resident protection.
Besides that, McAfee and Norton are not compatible with Windows Mail and
Outlook Express and should be uninstalled. The latest version of Trend's
anti-virus seems to be causing problems too.

 

[Steve]

I've looked at every internet post on this I can find and still nothing of
value so I'll state my specific environment and see if anyone has seen the
same problem.
(1) Vista Basic with Windows Mail - this problem has been with me since
going to Vista on an new Toshiba laptop
(2) 6 email accounts in Mail, 5 POP3, 1 IMAP
(3) Boot up, everything fine for anywhere between 24 and 48 hours, then
the
POP3 accounts stop with error message "Your server has unexpectedly
terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server
problems,
network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: XXXXXX, Server:
XXXX.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number:
0x800CCC0F
(4) Trend Micro 2007 anti-virus software doing only inbound email scanning
(5) This Vista machine sits next to a Windows XP system with the same
email
configuration and anti-virus software and never sees the problem
(6) Reboot is the only way to get the POP3 accounts functioning.

Thanks for anyone who reads this.

I had an issue like your No. 3 - I run McAfee on my machine. Uninstalling
and re-installing fixed the problem. Apparently Norton and Trend can
exhibit the same symptoms under Vista. The advice I was given was to dump
McAfee, which I have ignored for now.

Steve

 

[AlexB]

One thing you should be suspicious is the Thunderbird. It is a Mozilla's
software, allegedly free but it will tie your computer in nuts. You will
have extremely hard time getting rid of it. If you have any MS email
accounts none will work, all you email will be gone. It will be a Mozilla OS
not Vista. I found thousands of Mozilla references in my registry when I
installed it years ago in Win2K. I had to delete them all manually.

I put this guy "Alias" in my DB of suspicious characters at once. He may be
hoarding unsuspected users into traps.

 

[Alias]

One thing you should be suspicious is the Thunderbird. It is a Mozilla's
software, allegedly free but it will tie your computer in nuts. You will
have extremely hard time getting rid of it. If you have any MS email
accounts none will work, all you email will be gone. It will be a
Mozilla OS not Vista. I found thousands of Mozilla references in my
registry when I installed it years ago in Win2K. I had to delete them
all manually.

Um, "years ago", Thunderbird didn't exist. It does not change your OS at
all.

Educate yourself before you put your foot in your mouth:

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird

"Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and
news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is
modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web
browser. On December 7, 2004, version 1.0 was released, and received
over 500,000 downloads in its first three days of release (and 1,000,000
in 10 days). As of 2007, Thunderbird has been downloaded more than 50
million times since 1.0 release."

I put this guy "Alias" in my DB of suspicious characters at once. He may
be hoarding unsuspected users into traps.

I suspect you need to buy an aluminum hat to keep the blue meanies away.

Alias

 

[NL]

totally agree

One thing you should be suspicious is the Thunderbird. It is a Mozilla's
software, allegedly free but it will tie your computer in nuts. You will
have extremely hard time getting rid of it. If you have any MS email
accounts none will work, all you email will be gone. It will be a Mozilla OS
not Vista. I found thousands of Mozilla references in my registry when I
installed it years ago in Win2K. I had to delete them all manually.

I put this guy "Alias" in my DB of suspicious characters at once. He may be
hoarding unsuspected users into traps.

 

[Alias]

totally agree

Then you're as totally ill informed as AlexB.

Alias

 

[Mike Smithson]

I was getting very discontent with Vista 32 Ultimate. 2 weeks ago I
uninstalled Trend Micro. It is absolutely amazing how much better things are
running on this machine. I am using AVG free now, but will look into AVAST
this afternoon.

I'd say that you can take what Alias says straight to the bank.

Mike

 

[Travis Crow]

totally agree

Are you two drinking toilet duck or something?

 

[Mick Murphy]

Whatever you are smoking, STOP it!

One thing you should be suspicious is the Thunderbird. It is a Mozilla's
software, allegedly free but it will tie your computer in nuts. You will
have extremely hard time getting rid of it. If you have any MS email
accounts none will work, all you email will be gone. It will be a Mozilla OS
not Vista. I found thousands of Mozilla references in my registry when I
installed it years ago in Win2K. I had to delete them all manually.

I put this guy "Alias" in my DB of suspicious characters at once. He may be
hoarding unsuspected users into traps.

 

[DanS]

One thing you should be suspicious is the Thunderbird. It is a
Mozilla's software, allegedly free but it will tie your computer in
nuts. You will have extremely hard time getting rid of it. If you have
any MS email accounts none will work, all you email will be gone. It
will be a Mozilla OS not Vista. I found thousands of Mozilla
references in my registry when I installed it years ago in Win2K. I
had to delete them all manually.

*Complete* nonsense above.