Sorry that it did not work.

Unfortunately I cannot thoroughly test my suggestions without paying your ISP for an account - something I have no great interest in doing - I hope you understand.

I have one more suggestion if you are willing to give it a try. If it fails I will leave it up to the brighter minds at Avast.

Let’s choose a new port for POP3 and tell Avast about it so that it can intercept that port unhindered by your accelerator. We’ll see if we can then get Avast to send on the POP3 requests in a way that your accelerator can grab and send to your ISP.

To do this:

In the Redirect tab of the Avast Internet Mail provider change the POP3 port to 11110. Probably best to stop and restart the provider.

In Outlook Express for this account change the Account name to:

youruserid#mail.access-4-free.com:110

of course, replacing youruserid with your real username.

In the “Advanced” tab for your account change the POP3 port to be 11110 (the same as we set for Avast). Click on “OK”.

The intent here is:

Outlook Express > port 11110 > Avast > port 110 > accelerator > ISP.

I hope this is more successful.