A couple things; first, this newsgroup is for Office Outlook, not Outlook
Express. There are newsgroups especially for OE and you'll find much better
expertise for OE problems in these groups. Second, we need to know a lot
more about the problem than just an "error occurred". What kind of account
is this? Would you please post the entire error message?

Hal
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"Jane" wrote in message
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Hi, Just got new windowsXPmedia centre 2002,set up outlook,can receive
emails
but can't send emails as it keeps saying 'error occurred'. Why can't I
create
and send mail? This is a new computer 3 days old. Any help would be very
much
welcome. Thank you.