Hi there - I too have a problem with 4.5 Home (registered) in that I get timeouts with email. This did not happen with the previous version.
I use the Turnpike email client and collect email from 4 different ISP mail accounts thus the email collection is set to:
server: 127.0.0.1
Mailbox : osborneuk#mail.btinternet.com
Server: 127.0.0.1
Mailbox: crosswayl#pop3.lineone.net
etc
Avast .ini has:
DefaultPopServer=mail.btinternet.com
DefaultSmtpServer=mail.btinternet.com
I connect to btinternet by broadband 1Mbyte
Here is an extract from my email client's log:
Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:58:40 Starting to send mail to mail.btinternet.com
Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:08:42 SMTP command rejected while talking to mail.btinternet.com: DATA timed out
Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:08:42 Mail connection to mail.btinternet.com closed, 0 messages transmitted
I assume that as I don't use outlook/express turning off the mail provider will stop the checking of incoming email.
So what do I do?