Thanks for the response, Culpeper. Both of those servers are set to the internal address (127.0.0.1) and the user ID is correct. I’ve looked at some else’s setup that uses Avast and it looks similar (different ISP).

There are no spam/antispam programs being used. I have ZoneAlarm Free on there but that hasn’t changed. The only thing that changed is updating Avast to a newer release through its update routine.

I don’t think changing the port number would make any difference. I did check to make sure that it was set at 110. I’m not sure but it seems that changing the port number in OE could cause a problem between either Avast and OE or Avast and the mail server.

I think I’ve expended just about all of the quick and easy solutions but that doesn’t mean I haven’t overlooked something. I have a feeling I may be going anead and uninstall/download/reinstall Avast today.

If there’s anyone else that has any ideas send them over. I plan on holding off as long as I can on going through that. Thanks for all of the help so far.