I have been trying to track down a problem that I have, sometimes several times a week and lasts for sometimes several hours. Sometimes I can't get my emails. I get error 0x80042108, Outlook is unable to connect with your incoming (pop3) server.

Pings to mail.mydomain.com come back fine.

tracert works great to missy.gendns9.com.

Server loads are fine <1.

Any other ideas I can try to locate where my problem is? This has been a periodic problem for close to a year now. My ISP is Hughes satellite, and I would never rule them out as the cause. I just want some way of proving where the problem is. Thanks for any ideas anybody might come up with.