error 0x800CCC7D weird problem

[espee2]

I have a weird problem. Lately when I try to sent email it times out
and get this message:

Task 'MSN - Sending' reported error (0x800CCC7D) : 'Your outgoing
(SMTP) server does not support SSL-secured connections. If SSL-secured
connections have worked in the past, contact your server administrator
or Internet service provider (ISP).'

I have Outlook 2003 on XP home sp3 on desktop and notebook (both
desktop and notebook do this) what's weird is, I tested both ports 25
and 587 and are not blocked. and when I go to account properties and
do a "test email settings" it works fine and sends a test email. then
I go back and try to send the email sitting in the outbox, half the
time it sends and half the time I get the error message again.

 

[Peter Foldes]

http://liveunplugged.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!F92775FC46A390CA!422.entry

 

[espee2]

I had all the settings correct, I chatted w/ Qwest support for about
an hour, we determined it was my Avast antiVirus (4.8) I deleted it
and updated to their new 5.x version and it's working now.

(I'm not in email, I'm in Google Groups Newsreader)