I have a XPS 410 that came with Vista and McAfee Security Center. I had no problems until yesterday. Now McAfee seems to be blocking outgoing mail in Windows Mail. I have no problem receiving mail and I can still send mail using Thunderbird, or I can turn off Email monitoring in McAfee temporarily to get the email to send in Windows Mail. I can understand if there was a problem from the start, but it has been working fine for two months. This is the message that I get:

 

The connection to the server has failed. Subject 'Test', Account: 'pop.west.cox.net', Server: 'smtp.west.cox.net', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

 

As I said, I just get this with outgoing mail and only in Windows Mail, and everything is fine if I disable the email scan, so obviously there is no problem with the connection. Any ideas what might be causing this?

 

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