Ok so this is crazy.   I have an email address @lyngaas.net.  I host that the same place I host my email for @thesmartass.info.  They are hosted on my server.  Now I have been getting email everyday, and like most people it’s all spam.  Though it has seemed odd that nobody has been sending me personal emails.  Didn’t think too much about it since when I click send/receive in Outlook it shows that it checked the server, there are no new emails and then it just goes to next pop3 email and checks that and finds new email. 

So then I find out that somebody did send me something specific and I didn’t get it.  My spam filtering is totally off on that domain so that was really odd.  I figured it bounced.  Well I poked around my server and in my webmail I now have 52 new personal emails that have been collecting for over a month.   Some of which I REALLY needed to see when they came.  Doh.   So now I get to read through all of these and send lots of “my bad” responses to people.  Still not sure what outlook’s problem is.  However as soon as I figure it out I will post it on this post as a solution in case it happens to other people.  I mean email that’s not downloading is easy to fix if Outlook is giving you an error message, but when it’s not it’s rather tricky and I’m not about to change email clients just to fix it. 

UPDATE:  I got outlook to work correctly by deleting the account and re-adding it.  However before doing that I combed through all the settings and could not find any one of them wrong.