Don't use POP3 - if the computer goes phut, then so does everything stored on it, including the emails.
With IMAP they stay on the client server so you can access them from any device.
Check your settings as well as your provider may have changed something. My provider email settings had to be...
I always turn up a couple of minutes after the due time in the hope that nobody else can be bothered to sit through the crap either.
It doesn't work very often, so I invariably have to sit there wondering how much more of the inane verbiage I will have to suffer before I can get out and...
Too many outsize Chelsea tractors, and climate change (heavy rain and frost) damage the tarmac. Councils just don't have the people and equipment to keep up - and most of the temporary repairs won't last because they are done in a rush and not properly sealed.