This issue is most probably caused by your AV scanning your emails.
Disable the scanning by Uninstalling your AV then re-installing it without the email
integration(scanning)

http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

Read the following
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm
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Peter

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"borstal21" u55931@uwe wrote in message news:9e8feb80e79dd@uwe...
Can anybody help me!
I am running windows XP and use outlook express for emails. Over the last 3/4
months I have experienced problems with sending email, incoming are no
problem - on sending email I am getting an error message,
The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'pop.orangehome.co.uk',
Server: 'smtp.orangehome.co.uk', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No,
Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

I have tried to sort it myself and sometimes by rebooting the PC clears the
problem but now that does not clear it up - I have spoken with Orange and
they are not much help