The original question was:
I keep getting dialog boxes that say: "Internet connection time elapsed, Continue Waiting YES NO." Answering yes or no seems to make no difference.
The answer:
Click on avast tray icon, doubleclick "Internet mail" and on "Advanced" tab specify zero in "Timeout for Internet communication", this disables timeout checking. You must have avast build >= 4.0.160 otherwise this setting will not be accepted.
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As I had the same little problem I tried it. Result no more dialog box.
Very good.
Instead a little icon next to the Avast icon, which appeared to have something to do with my e-mail provider and did not disappear, apparently I stayed connected.
Back to the advanced tab. I specified 60 (any number except zero will do, I guess) in "time out for ..etc" and under "when this time is over" I activated "shut down connection"
Everything is fine now. No dialog box and once I have received my mail the connection is shut down after 60 seconds.
(xp pro, avast 4.0. home, opera 7.2 and M2, the new and very excellent opera mail program).