Well after seemingly fixing the email fault with Outlook it continued to return intermittently.
- give up on Outlook – Microsoft are of the devil
- install Mozilla Thunderbird
- Mozilla are not of the devil
- Test Thunderbird
- Thunderbird doesn’t work either
- recheck settings
- Thunderbird has same intermittent fault as Outlook
- Apologise to Microsoft, Outlook and all the little Microserfs who created it and do a wonderful job keeping it updated
- Uninstall Thunderbird – no point in having two redundant email clients
- check facebook
- facebook down for maintenance
- facebook is of the devil
- realise that the only thing that could affect both Outlook and Thunderbird is Norton
- (now worry about whether I have used the right word, affect or effect – can’t be bothered to check dictionary)
- turn off all of Norton and live update (I’m not getting caught out like before)
- Uninstall all of the Security software on the PC
- Hope that the PC doesn’t get attacked whilst doing this delicate operation
- test Outlook, it works
- Reinstall security software – restart a silly number of times
- test Outlook, it works
- scan PC to check I haven’t been attacked
- wait silly amount of time
- sleep
If anyone feels called to buy me one of these please feel free to leave a message in the comments