On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:03:18 +0100, Alastair Scott wrote: <snip> AS> 6. An interesting discovery: I have a personal firewall, ZoneLabs' AS> ZoneAlarm (www.zonelabs.com), installed on the Win2K machine. On the AS> second and subsequent attempts by The Bat! to read any of the three AS> POP3 servers ZoneAlarm catches attempts by them to access AS> 'non-standard' ports (generally in the 1030 to 1060 range), raising AS> an alert. There are no such alerts following the first attempt by AS> The Bat! or with Outlook Express or AK-Mail. I was about to ask you this and you volunteered it. ZoneAlarm is the culprit here. I wrote to the ZoneAlarm developers and this was their response: We are looking into resolving the problem with blocking access to mail servers, others have reported it too. A solution for now is to add the mail server to your trusted Local Zone. - Enter the security panel - Click on the advanced button. - Select add - Select host/Site - Enter the mail server name - Click next, confirm the entry - Click OK - Click OK Then you should no longer have a problem accessing the email server. I hope this helps. The above instructions do solve the problem and I hope this helps. :-) Most who have reported this problem have indeed been using ZoneAlarm. Another work around is to use a local POP server. XRay is a nice one. -- Allie Martin [ TB! v1.45 Beta/4 | Win2k Pro ] PGP Key: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=GetAlliePGPKey ________________________________________________________ "Skiier: Avalanche looking for a place to happen. " -- -------------------------------------------------------------- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org