Trouble recieving Pop3 messages

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I can't seem to recieve pop3 e-mail messages. I get the following error:

A time-out occurred while communicating with the server. Account:
'mail2.eircom.net', Server: 'mail2.eircom.net', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110,
Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC19

can anyone help?
(note : I can recieve the messages via "mail2web.com , but it's not what I
want)
 
Have you checked with the provider to see if they're having any issues with
their server?
 
DB said:
I can't seem to recieve pop3 e-mail messages. I get the following
error:

A time-out occurred while communicating with the server. Account:
'mail2.eircom.net', Server: 'mail2.eircom.net', Protocol: POP3, Port:
110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC19
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Can you telnet to port 110 of the server? If not, that tells you it's the
server's problem. If you can, then make sure you disable any mail scanning
by your antivirus program by completely uninstalling the mail scanning
feature.
 
If you can check mail using mail2web.com, then the server isn't likely to be
having problems. My guess is that you have antivirus software that is
grabbing any port 110 traffic and scanning it. As far as your mail program
is concerned it connected to the server, but it hasn't received anything
because the virus scanner isn't functioning properly and downloading mail,
scanning it, and delivering it to the mail client.

Check your antivirus options to disable scanning of incoming messages, then
open your mail client and try downloading again. This can be particularly
bothersome if you're on a slow internet connection and have a large file
attachment on the way, as most AV scanners download the whole file to scan,
then send it on to the mail client (where if you were actually getting it
directly from the server the connection wouldn't be "idle" as you'd be
getting a little bit of data at a time).

If you're not running antivirus software that scans incoming email, then
another possibility is a corrupted pop3uidl file in Outlook Express (if
that's what you're using). Try closing Outlook Express and then searching
your C: drive for this file. Rename it to something else (like
pop3uidl.old) then open Outlook Express again.
 
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