"Ace Tan" wrote in message
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i have no anti-spam applications installed on the pc. Scanning of
inoming/outgoing email by anti-virus application is activated.


What is happening is that the anti-virus is interposing a proxy between OE
and the mail server. It is telling OE that the mail was sent even though
the server timed out and the mail was never actually sent. Turn off email
scanning. See my first post.

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Answer in newsgroup. Don't send mail.