I didn't even have antivirus installed (nor a firewall), so that's not the
problem. I've since installed free versions of Zonealarm firewall and AVG
antivirus.

"Ron Sommer" wrote:

Is your antivirus program scanning emails.
Turn off the email scan.
--
Ronald Sommer

"RankAmateur2" wrote in message
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: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?