[Ah, you found your way to an OE-specific newsgroup!]

Troubleshooting error messages that you receive when you are using OL and OE
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813514

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

QP
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.
/QP
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/


shakey wrote:
Sure Bruce and thanks.
The outgoing message immediately ends up in the outgoing file folder.

Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes
for
this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of
inactivity. Subject 'TEST PIC', Account: 'pop.sonic.net', Server:
'mail.sonic.net', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 465, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket
Error:
10053, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F




"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Could I persuade you to share the error message with us in its entirety?
Please copy and paste it into this thread.

If it is in an OE Dialog Box, copy/paste is a little different than
normal.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA
Left click on it to highlight and then right click to copy and then
paste
it into this thread.

"shakey" shakeyATsonic.net wrote in message
...
Using XP and IE6 I can send text message to anyone or myself but if I
add
attachment or in line JPG it will not go out. Server error, been working
with my ISP support over one hour with no progress.
Anyone see this before and know what's up?
Mel