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Thanks. I tried the connection setting with both options: no check or check to automatically detect settings.

Neither works. This is so strange. iTunes works. And when Windows tries to diagnose a connection problem (an option when IE won’t deliver a page) Windows says there is no problem.

AARRGGH

One way spammers get email addresses is by spambots. This is software that essentially crawls thousands of web pages per minute looking for email addresses published on the web pages.
When it sees them, it saves them to a file, and then spams them and/or uses them as return addresses.
Worse yet, they will sell those email addresses to other spammers and the nightmare continues.

A simple way to minimize this for anyone who needs to have an email address on a web page is to encrypt the email.

Easier than it sounds, you can do it in under a minute on a free site like http://spamdisappears.com