Keep losing POP3 Accounts

Keep losing my POP3 Accounts

I am running ME and use outlook express. Once i have accessed Outlook Express the only way to receive e-mail or to retrieve mail is to restart each time I have 4 accounts set up and in the accounts box it changes back to Localhost. Once i have changed the accounts back to the POP3 accounts and restarted, I can only operate outlook express once, before I have to do all this again! I have deleted Outlook express, didn't make any difference. Anyone help?

 

What is the POP addressses changing to? If it's changing to either Local Host or an IP address ( depending on what AV software you are running,with Macaffe it will usually put in an IP address and Norton or PC-cillin puts in Local Host )
Does it also put the correct POP3 address at the end of the Account Name as well e.g. joebloggs/pop.anyone.com, because this is also a common fault with AV software.
Doing as Steve said will fix this problem, however, it's always a good idea to scan your e-mails every now and then just to be on the safe side.

I hope this helps.

 

Which account is set-up as the default account?

Also this may be to simple, but was wondering if you have selected

"Include this account when receiving mail or synchronizing "

in your POP3 properties?