Bob, You mentioned quite a few settings which are all related to your problem, but you did not mention one of the main ones..... Under TOOLS - OPTIONS - GENERAL is the option to CHECK FOR NEW MESSAGES EVERY xx MINUTES. This must be active for the "autoretrieve" function to work. Jim Meagher ===== Micro Solutions Consulting Member of The HTML Writers Guild http://www.ezy.net/~microsol International Webmasters Association 410-543-8996 MS Site Builder Network - Level 2 member ===== ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob LaSalle <[log in to unmask]> > Best wishes to all..... > > I am running IE 5.0 and Outlook Express 5. With all the various options, > controls, selections, etc. I have managed to loose the feature of automatic > checking the mail server for new mail. In order to retrieve mail from my > ISP's mail server, I must manually select Tools/Send&Receive/mail-server. > Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcsoft.html