A few days ago tried to send a message with several Word and Excel
files attached. Got an error message: "The message could not be sent.
An error has occurred". Finally sent it in 3 separate emails
successfully.

Shortly thereafter sending stopped working completely and received the
same error message.

Friend recommended renaming "Sent Items" folder from .dbx to .old.
Did so and could send a couple of messages and then problem recurred.

Also downloaded IE6 and reinstalled - no help.

Here's an OE log of what happens:


Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807
SMTP Log started at 06/02/2006 16:51:11
SMTP: 16:51:11 [rx] 220 ibm57aec.bellsouth.net ESMTP server ready Fri,
2 Jun 2006 16:50:26 -0400
SMTP: 16:51:11 [tx] HELO COMPUTERNAME
SMTP: 16:51:11 [rx] 250 ibm57aec.bellsouth.net
SMTP: 16:51:11 [tx] MAIL FROM: email
SMTP: 16:51:11 [rx] 250 Sender email Ok
SMTP: 16:51:11 [tx] RCPT TO: email
SMTP: 16:51:12 [rx] 250 Recipient email Ok
SMTP: 16:51:12 [tx] RCPT TO: email
SMTP: 16:51:12 [rx] 250 Recipient email Ok
SMTP: 16:51:12 [tx] DATA
SMTP: 16:51:12 [rx] 354 Please start mail input.
SMTP: 16:51:12 [tx]
..
SMTP: 16:51:12 [rx] 250 Mail queued for delivery.
SMTP: 16:51:12 [tx] QUIT
SMTP: 16:51:12 [rx] 221 Closing connection. Good bye.


Any help greatly appreciated! Webmail can't import my address book,
so it's hard to use.