This is usually caused by scanning e-mail, or an anti-spam program.

Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer
of protection that eats up CPUs and causes a multitude of problems such as
time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A/V program will
continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Lost e-mails after OE compact"
m wrote in message
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I have setup accounts in my new pc with OE6. After computer restarts the
pop3
address changes back to loopback address and the pop3 port number changes
back to the default. Thus I am not able to receive my gmails. Does anybody
know how I can fix this annoying problem.