Thunderbird email access prob.

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Hi,

For some time now Thunderbird version 1.5 (20051025) does strange things 
retrieving email from my ISP POP server.

Yesterday it worked fine.

Today it does nothing when first starting Thunderbird and selecting the 
appropriate inbox and then "Get Mail".

After a little while doing the same will show "connecting" en then nothing.

After still longer the message will show up "Connection to server 
mail.att.net.mx timed out".

Then sometime later, like right now, it will work and email is retrieved.

Starting/stopping the firewall has no effect.

Mozilla mail-news 1.7.12 shows the same symptoms.

But sites like mail2web and Yahoo! mail can access the POP server always 
and without problems.

Anybody have a clue what this is?

Thanks!

H