e-mail blocking with Outlook 2003 and Symantec

[James Fonger]

Outlook 2003 will have trouble finding the POP and SMPT
mail servers with Norton scanning e-mail using
Systemworks 2004 without a Norton firewall. The machine
is behind a router that works fine for Internet access
but keeps kicking off e-mail. Turning off Norton e-mail
monitoring solves the problem. How should I proceed to
protect my Outlook e-mail traffic.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

You really don't need to protect it- unless you can't trust yourself to
delete messages unread.

Did you try turning up the timeout?

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
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[Brian Tillman]

Outlook 2003 will have trouble finding the POP and SMPT
mail servers with Norton scanning e-mail using
Systemworks 2004 without a Norton firewall. The machine
is behind a router that works fine for Internet access
but keeps kicking off e-mail. Turning off Norton e-mail
monitoring solves the problem. How should I proceed to
protect my Outlook e-mail traffic.

You are still running an on-access antivirus scanner, aren't you? If so,
you're protected anyway, even if you don't scan incoming mail and if your
protected, scanning outgoing mail is a waste of time.