Thankyou for such a prompt reply Igor - when I tried to test ICQ and Windows Messenger I just got an "Unknown Error" report.
Do you have ICQ and Windows Messenger installed (and running?) I think it's required for these alerts to be sent.
By the way, all my email accounts use STMP authentification - could this be the problem?
I guess it could.
Hi Igor,
I didn't have ICQ or Windows Messenger running (I guess I assumed that the messages would be sent offline) so I've tried again:
ICQ: I sent a message to myself & Avast! said the message was sent ok) but nothing arrived. Instead, an ICQ send message box was opened for me - at least something happened!
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Windows Messenger: I still get the 'Unknown Error' report. This might be because its called MSN Messenger in the 'all programs' shortcut - er, I gotta vague feeling I played around with things ages ago in an attempt to stop the program being loaded all the time.
SMTP: Guess I'll have to find an email account that doesn't require secure authentification!
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Thankyou to Bob (again!) and Justnet - it'll be interesting to see what the cause of your error message is too!
Regards,
John