My Outlook Express 6 SP1 (and actually my original OE 6) just recently (in the past 3 weeks) starting to exhibit strange behavior that I haven’t seen before. The pop downloading window refuse to take user command while downloading pop.
Usually I intermittenly issue a “Stop” command during download of large number of pop mails so if it crashes, I don’t have to re-download all the emails all over again. (my internet connection is not reliable) The download screen
would then respond that I have to wait till the
current download is finish, and then it closes
itself once that is done.
Up until mid february, this still works, and I
still use OE 6 on my Windows 2000 Professional. Then it stops working. The download screen
“Stop” button no longer respond to my clicking.
In fact the only button that still work is the
“X” button and windows stated that this process
is not responding, do I want to close it anyway.
Note that the rest of OE 6 windows works normally. I can still read all emails during the download.
Thinking its a virus (despite my LAN firewall, my Norman Antivirus) I reinstall my entire Windows 2000. No effect. (note that my OE 6 on Windows 98 partition works just fine)
I then upgrade to OE 6 SP1. and on the first day,
it works like it supposed to. Then the next day,
the problem reappear.
My Network Admin can’t tell me anything, and neither can the company that managed my antivirus.
Anyone can tell me what happens?
Thanks in advance,
Donald
Some technical info:
I download email using Pop proxy through a
wingate proxy in my corporate lan. My email
is held by an ISP that uses a virus checker on all incoming mails.