Sounds like a classic case AntiVirus scanner misbehavior, are you running an
AV application and have it set to scan your email?
Hal
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"JackF" <JackF@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I noticed today that I wasn't getting any email. So I sent myself a test
> email (from a yahoo account), hit send/receive, got the usual box saying
> "receiving 1 of 1", it looked like it was downloading (but no green bar)
and
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> then no email. I checked all the folders, and it's not here. I also
> searched the entire computer, and none of the email sent to me in the last
12
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> hours is here. I (eventually) rebooted, and windows mail is now again
> receiving email as usual. My ISP confirms that my email was downloaded
off
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> their server, but there's no sign of it here.
>
> I know of at least one important email that was sent and did not download.
> Any thoughts on what may have happened and whether there's any way to
recover
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> my lost bits? (My ISP has promised to restore any email that was on their
> server at midnight, but anything since then is gone.)