Thunderbird Cannot receive emails

Robert, In future please refrain from carrying out multiple topic postings on the same subject! You won't obtain an answer to your query any faster!. Also please try to keep the whole conversation in one question/thread to speed up any resolution. Please see your other posting (https://support.avg.com/answers?id=906b0000000DpKNAA0).
AVG Guru

Robert, In future please refrain from carrying out multiple topic postings on the same subject! You won't obtain an answer to your query any faster!. Also please try to keep the whole conversation in one question/thread to speed up any resolution. Please see your other posting (https://support.avg.com/answers?id=906b0000000DpKNAA0).
AVG Guru

My inbox has stopped working and others have had the same issue.  Once I disabled the email protection the pop3 service error message went away