Thank you for your help Peter. Yes anti virus scanning was turned off.

In this case PA Bear's Reply nailed the problem that the ISP must have
blocked the outgoing port 25 so changing to port 587 solved the problem.
http://liveunplugged.spaces.live.com...90CA!171.entry

Once again I apologise for posting the same question several times due to
technical problems.


Kind Regards
Chris

"Peter Foldes" wrote:

Chris

This is caused by your Anti Virus scanning your emails

Have you tried to disable your Anti Virus scanning of in and outgoing emails. On
some Anti Virus suites you will need to uninstall the program and then re-install
it without the email integration(scanning) otherwise the scanning will not disable.

http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm

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"Chris" wrote in message
...
I can receive mail from all my accounts. Interestinglingly I can send mail
with with my hotmail HTTP account but cant send with my Hotmail POP3 account.
I get the error message:

The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'POP3', Server:
'smtp.live.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error:
10051, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

I tried deleting the POP3 account and making a new one but this did not
solve the problem. I have set Norton not to scan incoming or outgoing
messages.

According to the archives
http://support.microsoft.com/default.asp

The client connects to a port that is blocked or unavailable on the mail
server. If the client is trying to send a message, the blocked port is 25

However the other two mail accounts in OE6 also use port 25 to send mail and
don't have any problem.

Does anyone know if Hotmail are experiencing problems with their SMTP
outgoing mail server?

Could it be that my POP3 settings are not correct?
I am using the settings below:

Your help would be appreciated

Kind Regards
Chris

Advanced tab:
Outgoing mail SMTP 25
tick this server requires secure connection SSL
Incoming POP3 995 (does not work with port 110)
tick this server requires secure connection SSL
Server timeouts 1 minute short

Sending dont tick break apart messages larger than 60 KB

OE6 Settings-
General Tab:

Name server
pop3.live.com


Tick include this account when receiving mail or syncronizing

Servers Tab:
Incoming: pop3.live.com
Outgoing: smtp.live.com

Tick remenber password
Dont tick log on using secure Password
Tick outgoing server required authentication

under settings Logon info

Dont tick log on using secure Password authentication

Connection Tab:
Tick nothing

Security tab
Algorithm: 3DES