10061 = Connection refused.

Do you have SMTP Authentication enabled? In OE this is specified in
Tools, Accounts, Mail, Properties, Servers, Outgoing Mail Server, My
Server Requires Authentication.

Are you using a dial-up connection?

In Tools, Accounts, Mail, do you have more than one mail account set up?

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Jean LF" wrote in message
...
I have WinXP, IE 7and my ISP is AT&T Yahoo. I have always had Outlook
Express as my default email but also use my Yahoo email. A week ago,
I
found I could not send email in OE. I can receive email and my
newsgroups
work just fine. When I first click on my email a box comes up that
says I
am not connected and to retry. After I retry, I am connected. When I
try
to send an email, I get an error.
The connection to the server has failed,
Account:"POP.prodigy.yahoo.com'Server:'smtp.prodig y.yahoo.com',Protocol:SMTP,
Port:25, Secure(SSL):NO, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number 0x800CCC0E

I have cleaned my temp. files, compacted, my virus scan does not scan
my
emails. I don't know what else to do and hope someone will enlighten
me.
Thanks for your help.