That symptom can be caused by interference from an antivirus
program. Which antivirus are you running?
As a minimum, email scanning in the antivirus should be turned off,
although that may not be sufficient to eliminate all bad effects.
In a worst case scenario, your antivirus may need to be uninstalled.
Email scanning in any antivirus should be disabled, for reasons
explained here:
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm
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Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/profile/vandermolen
"nene" <nene DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:33E76005-39F1-458E-9827-E7474EE6CB74@microsoft.com...
>I have been having the same problem for about a week. It says "authorizing"
> but nothing happens. Then it says "Your POP3 server has not responded in 60
> seconds." Later at night, it will work or early in the morning, so I'm
> thinking it must be Hughes Net.