I am a "computer consultant", self employed and a jack of all computer trades.

I was doing some pro-Bono work for a client where I installed three new Windows 7 machines and moved the XP machines to other locations. Before removing each XP machine I cloned the hard disk drive to used as a virtual hard drive in a Virtual Box virtual machine.

Each user has their own email address as well a a community email address which they all check. All but one of the machines (virtual and physical) have the email setting set to leave the messages of the community email address on the server. The one machine (master we will call it) deletes the emails from the server after 30 days.

This is where the strangeness comes in.

All of the machines (physical and virtual) can send and receive from the their personal email and the community email addresses except the physical "master" machine. The virtual machine on "master" PC can send and receive all accounts to which it has access, but not the physical master.

The physical master logs into the community email address and comes back with a message that no new emails are available for that account. It can send from that account to the same account and every other PC can see it even the virtual machine running on the same PC. The same physical machine can send and receive from the personal email address.

I have tried thunderbolt and Windows Live Mail with the same results.

I had intended to say that I used both Thunderbird and Windows live Main to check the email address, the forum will once again not let me edit my posts.

Does the physical master return any kind of error messages?