It certainly is Bob but its not quite the bonus I first thought it was!

After I went offline this morning, it occurred to that Avast! was using port 25 (on which Hotmail Popper sits) as my default SMTP server so I began to wonder how the message had got ‘out’ (so to speak).

I checked the headers and then sent a message from my Outlook Express Lineone account to two AOL addresses and one MSN one.

The MSN one couldn’t be sent - and I’m pretty sure this is because Lineone/Tiscali isn’t my ISP - but the other two went straight into the AOL system & arrived ok.

Very much an oddity from my point of view, but one that’ll eventually make sense as I learn more - I hope!

Regards,

John