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Originally Posted by JimD
I examined an error message this morning from Outlook, and it said "Locked by another POP3 process". This lends credence to what you are saying, but I deleted the accounts from my iPhone last night - so why would there be a conflict this morning?
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Trust me - pop3 won't allow more than one concurrent connection without problems. It depends on the pop3 server, but what happens is the server will have a stale pop3 lock file that has to be flushed. Most pop3 servers set up a cron that runs every so often to clear these lock files out.
If you stop collecting mail on that account from ALL your computers for something between 25 minutes and 4 hours (depending on the isp's setting) then the cronjob will remove that lock file and you'll be running again.