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Message: [QUOTE="Rich Gierman, post: 14033471"] No. No. No. Don't muck with the timeout. Leave the polling for mail delivery alone. It isn't any of those things. I drove myself nuts dinking with those. If you read AOL's page on IMAP and AOL mail, the solution is right there. [URL]http://about.aol.com/faq/openmailaccess#OL0203[/URL] Go into the advanced properties for the account. Go to the Outgoing Server tab. PLACE A CHECKMARK IN THE BOX THAT SAYS "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication". Then back out gracefully. THAT INSTANTLY FIXES THE PROBLEM! No restart, no close Outlook and re-open it. In fact, after I did that, I was immediately able to move incoming e-mails from the inbox to any of my saved mail folders (which was where most of the problems were occurring). However, it took forever for it to happen. As soon as I went back into advanced properties and moved that stupid slider from 10 minutes back down to its lowest setting - 10 seconds - my response time for moving an email to a folder or even opening a new email dropped to almost instantly! I was having the problem on a completely fresh install of XP SP3, so I figured it either had to be some unannounced change by AOL on their mail servers - and we all know that never happens, right? - or it had to be a configuration option. In spite of the fact that it just started a couple of months ago and I hadn't changed anything in a year or two. Anyway, problem REALLY solved! Rich [/QUOTE]