ty everybody who replied to my query. I am not computer literate at all, but I will always have a go at curing faults.
My OS is XP home edition and use XP firewall. I run sybot and AD-Aware I have both outlook express and incredimail with incredimail as my default mail This is one of several time out message I recieved in the last couple of hours
A time-out occurred while communicating with the server. Account: 'pop3., Server: 'pop3., Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC19 I have removed the server name from this message
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