I’ve got the same problem, with a few differences.

The pop up is an OE pop up which says that your SMTP server has not responded in 60 seconds. You have the option to wait or stop. In my case, it doesn’t matter if I click wait or just let it sit there. The email is still sent. Connection status monitor shows data being sent and received. It would seem that avast!'s proxy server is not sending a signal back to me that OE recognizes as a response from the SMTP server.

The pop up comes ever minute on the dot. If I wait for say, 45 seconds to click wait, it will appear 15 seconds later.

I’m sure that the avast! server is in contact with the SMTP server, as I never get a avast timeout error.

I’m on slow dial up, and sending a large, 1.5-2 mb email, takes about 8-12 min… Setting the OE time out to max may not be enough to keep the pop up from appearring, unless avast! does send a signal some time during the course of sending the email. But I don’t think so, as I stated above it will show up every minute, so there couldn’t have been a signal at any time.

This is not really a problem, but rather an annoyance.

I will try setting the OE timer and see what happens.

Ok, I set it 5 min (300 sec), pop up appeared right on schedule. I stand by my theory.

BTW, why would setting the time out in avast! have an effect on an OE pop up?

Oops, forgot. Win 98se, IE 5.5, OE 5