Try changing your SMTP port to 25 and see what happens. Turn off e-mail
scanning as well.

Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer
of protection that eats up CPUs, slows down sending and receiving, and
causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes
and has even been responsible for lose of messages. Your up-to-date A/V
program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

Note that for some AV programs, it may be necessary to uninstall the program
and reinstall in Custom Mode and uncheck e-mail scanning when the option
arises.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"svejkat" wrote in message
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I have ver 6 of OE and I just started getting this error message:The
connection to the server has failed. Account: 'POP.WEST.COX.NET', Server:
'SMTP.WEST.COX.NET', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 4500, Secure(SSL): No, Socket
Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E


Hw do I fix it? thanks