Interesting info. Would really love to find out what was causing the problem. Too bad we don't even know how to solve it - I mean, in your case it seems to have disappeared with no particular reason...
Vlk, after I posted my question this morning, I went off line for about four hours. When I logged back on, everything is now working.
I had not done anything...I thought I would just tackle it when I got home.
Now the message is internet mail/provider is currently running instead of "waiting for a sub system..." and hovering on the a icon shows 7 providers,6 running (don't use Outlook).
Emails that came in early this morning were not scanned, but new ones are...
ZA (free) and Prevx did initially "warn" me as the update was downloading, but it proceeded when I checked allow...
Strange, but I'm glad it's working!
cojo