Chris Olson paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly: >It's possible the POP3 server is simply rejecting connections >outside the ISP's IP netblock. >-- >Chris It seems that is where having mail forwarded to a paid, web-based account (with pop3 and/or IMAP access), comes in really handy. It's easy to make a case for a smaller, local ISP to have restrictions regarding 'out of block' (or whatever it's called) access. Anybody looked at their firewall's log re: port scanning, lately? ISPs and their policies come and go, yet, fortunately or not, there'll probably always be a Yahoo. <laughs> Seriously, for 10 bucks a year to have a truly useful web-based app, not a bad deal. ~flipper