The monitors of these two computers will 'flash' when data is being transferred. A square with a telephone. If the square is flashing blue, data is being transferred. The best way around this problem is to use a better Email client, such as Netscape Communicator . If you set it any less, you will start 'hammering' our server which puts it under more load and if lots of users do this, it could chew up system resources.
Many mail programs fail miserably with the cancel button.
If you are downloading your mail from our server, allow all the mail to download and wait until it finishes. Do not click the cancel button, as it may then not write the mail file on our server or close the connection properly, and your mailbox file may become corrupt. Receiving email uses the POP3 protocol, while sending mail uses the SMTP protocol. Since they are different protocols, they do not interfere with each other and are separate. There are a lot of users who have signed up with an instant messaging server, such as ICQ or Yahoo Pager.