Hello: I have used thebat for over 5 years. The day I installed version 3.99.24, I ceased to be able to contact my mail server, either at home over cable, or at the office via the LAN which is connected to the internet on a T1.

Setup is Windows XP SP2 on a laptop.  And with Internet Explorer I still have full access to the internet both at home and at office. I am using it now to send this.  In the office, I also have full access to the lan.

So the tcp/ip seems to be alright, but thebat will not connect

I seem to have tried everything - what are the most likely causes?

Firewalls - both windows and Kaspersky are disabled and even with all security at minimum, I cannot contact the mail server, which is a Linux unit which also hosts our website ewa1.com.  The ISP there says he has changed nothing.  I have tried going back to 3.99.3 without improvement.  Other computers in our office have no difficulty in contacting the mail server - but they don't use the Bat. Except one, where I just put in a trial version of thebat and it works.  So it is something wrong in my laptop setup which only occurred when I installed 3.99.24

Please help!

Eric