Hi Scouse

Tried the above suggested and still no further forward hunni. It's still asking for the username and password for my dad to send/receive emails.

Perhaps I would be better just to s**** his account all together and for him to use my mams?

speak to you later hun.

Thats it! I officially hate computers. I'm off to put head into gas oven!

Scouse - thanks for helping me get it sorted.

No problem Les, happy to help!

Just for the record so everyone else knows, the problem was server configuration. 'Pop3' was set up instead of 'Pop'. Changed and now it all works fine.