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I keep getting the message that the server may have gone down or disconnected. I try multiple attemps to enter my password, but it doesn't always succeed and I end up turning off the laptop and starting again. And sometimes it still doesn't work. I'm getting emails on Outlook but not on my preferred Firefox. Any advise please?

I keep getting the message that the server may have gone down or disconnected. I try multiple attemps to enter my password, but it doesn't always succeed and I end up turning off the laptop and starting again. And sometimes it still doesn't work. I'm getting emails on Outlook but not on my preferred Firefox. Any advise please?

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What mail provider are you trying to get mail from? What does the message say exactly? Have you tried without your antivirus scanning mail or encrypted connections? I had issues years ago and it was the antivirus loosing the plot and dropping the connection.

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Hi Matt, thanks for responding.

I'm not technical so hope my replies are what you are expecting - provider is Outlook and I get my emails through Thunderbird. I don't know how to turn off the antivirus scanning mail without turning off all my protection. I'll keep looking at settings to see if I can find anything. Thank you

The message says : server.map-email.outlook.com has disconnected. The server may have gone down.

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