Hi Eddy, I just tried that and received the same error box reported on the first post. The error is instantaneous, it doesn’t have a delay or something. And the ashMaiSv.exe icon doesn’t appear either in the taskbar, but as I said it works perfect downloading mails.

Hi again Peter, I really don’t know how they do it, but you can use their smtp server only ir your IP adress corresponds to this ISP, even if you are not authenticating through the smtp server ???

And, as HANAP said, I think this could a conflict with the new avast! version because with the same config it worked on version 4.1 :cry:

Cheers, and thanks to all for your help :wink: