A long time ago ( in a galaxy far far away ;D) I had a similar timeout problem with a spam proxy. Then, the timeout issue was solved by editing the registry setting of outlook. Allthough through outlook you can set a maximum of vife minutes, by editing the regsitry entry, youcan set it to whatever you seem fit. Then the entry looked something like this: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft|Office\8.0\Outlook\OMI Account Manager\Accounts\00…001\POP3 Timeout As we are ugh versions ahead now, the 8.0 could be 10.0, but i don;t use outlook anymore, so i can not find the exact key…

Hope this helps.

BTW, be carefull editing registry keys. If you mess it up, you can do permanent damage to your system. Just a friendly reminder.

Peter