Re: OE Hangs, doesn't download messages

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From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/04/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 19:23:26 -0600

If your mail server has a Web interface, use that to read and delete message
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"Betty" <betty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:62a801c4012a$14115170$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Experiencing an intermittent problem with OE.  About every
> 7-10 days, OE will not download mail, just hangs.  Click
> on "send and receive," message 1 downloads and window
> indicates "receiving message 2 of XX messages" and hangs
> at this point.  Try again later and message 1 is received
> again.  This first message will download as many times as
> I click on send and receive.   This behavior lasts
> overnight or as along as a day, then it goes away and all
> is fine again for another 7-10 days.  Have deleted and
> reconfigured mail accounts.  Have checked with my
> broadband provider who has run tests remotely and says
> everything is fine on their end and suggested I do a
> system restore.  Sometimes this cures it, sometimes it
> doesn't.  "Leave copy of message on server" is not checked
> in options.

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