Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It provides no
additional protection and even Symantec says it's not necessary:

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Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have
the most recent virus definitions.
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http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106

Troubleshooting error messages that you receive when you are using OL and OE
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813514
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

RankAmateur2 wrote:
I can't send e-mail attachments of any kind/size and only the occasional
sent e-mail actually makes it to its destination. Most ougoing mail gets
stuck in the Outbox then after a minute a pop up window says: "Your SMTP
server has not responded in 60 seconds. Would you like to wait another 60
seconds for the server to respond." If I click "Yes" this same message
comes back up. Incoming messages are received. I have Windows XP. I think
that I have Outlook Express version 6, but I'm not totally sure (I just
inherited this computer), nor do I know how to find that out using the
computer. I contacted my ISP and they said everything checked out on their
end, and we double checked the settings on my computer. They said it has
to
be the Outlook Express program. Any ideas?