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Hi,
I`m having a BIG problem with retreiving my e-mails from outlook express.

i`ve got 8 messages coming through the server but it always seems to stick half way on the 3rd message. i`ve set the timeout to max (5 mins) but it don`t help at all.this is part of the error message i then receive.

A time-out occurred while communicating with the server. Account: `home`, Server: `pop.ntlworld.com`, Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number:

If you`ve had no issues before it`s almost ccertainly at NTL`s end. Not much you can do but wait for them to sort their server out I`m afraid!

Are you expecting a big email from someone (maybe someone is sending you a big attachment and not wanred you first). That might take longer to download. You could go to the ntlworld website and log into your email using webmail (rght hand side of the screen), and see whats in your mailbox. Then delete the problem email there without downloading it, and see if Outlook Express works ok after that.

There`s a spate of e-mails at the moment with corrupt headers that cause e-mail clients to timeout. Mainly spam.

Use webmail as someone suggested, or software like Mailwasher that let`s you delete messages without downloading.

Alternatively you can telnet to the mailbox and delete the offending message.