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SA, I burst out laughing when I read your explanation. It's a habit of mine, too, to drop the 'I' in messages.   Cheers.

Nighthawk has set me right and I've thanked him — as I do you, NFtoBC, for drawing my attention to his answer.

Hi Nighthawk I had missed your message. Many apologies! More to the point, you solved my problem. Actually I had stumbled on a similar suggestion for forcing the POP option to show (typing an incorrect password). But your tip, with step-by-step instr...

Oops — I had missed Nighthawk's email. I'll give his/her tip a try. Thanks, NFtoBC.

I'm not sure that "Don't use an ipad" is the answer. Telus email worked fine on it for more than three years, until I foolishly wiped my iPad and started over from scratch. But I thank you for the suggestion to change the outgoing server port to 587....