[lemoncoke]

The problem I am having is Icant read my mail unless I hit the send receive button. I had to do a system restart because of some viruses and before it use to download my mail insantly know I have to hit send and receive. If I send a email to myself it won't come until I hit s/r button anyone know what could be wrong is it a setting or something else. Please help Rick

[mbonwick]

What you need to do is load OE, and go to Tools, Options.
Under The General tab, make sure that Send and Recive mesages at startup is ticked. You might also want to shorten the interval at which OE check for new messages.

[lemoncoke]

what about the tab that says my computer is not connected what should be ticked there.

[mbonwick]

You'd want to set that to Connect Even When Working Offline.
You only need this if you have a dial-up connection.