Hi:

If you have your antivirus configured to scan your emails, try disabling it. See this: http://forums.wugnet.com/oe6-save-pop-settings-ftopict447081.html

I don't use McAfee, but I'll assume you disabled both incoming and outgoing email scans:
To disable scanning of inbound or outbound e-mail:
1 Right-click the McAfee icon, point to VirusScan, and then click Options.
2 Click Advanced, then click the E-mail Scan tab.
3 Deselect Inbound e-mail messages or Outbound e-mail messages, then click OK.

If you google that error code you will see that most of the hits suggest that email scanners and/or timeouts are responsible for the dropped connection.

Do you use a software firewall?  Some of them (eg. ZoneAlarm) also have email scanners that can be disabled.

You also might try increasing the 'server timeout' to a value greater than the default of 'one minute':
-Open OE6, click on Tools>Accounts>Mail tab>Properties button>Advanced tab, and move the slider for 'server timeout' to the right.

Finally, you might try the generic OE6 tuneup suggestions from here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/oerepair.mspx

Message Edited by joe53 on 01-15-200604:36 AM

Message Edited by joe53 on 01-15-2006 04:36 AM

joe53,

Thanks for your response; I read the info. in your suggested link.

I disabled McAfee's e-mail scan, re-configured OE 6 to spec. and tried send/rec and all worked fine.

Logged-off as user then logged back on and tried OE 6...problem still remains...Tks for input.AR

joe53,

Thanks again for your input; I had done the email scan disable properly. I've followed the link you suggest and followed several others suggested from there. I've printed some of the articles/intructions. I won't have time to explore/apply all the info gathered at this time. I must leave home for the week(work related) but will further work on this next weekend.

Thanks for all the good leads! AR