You are right about it being a GoDaddy.com account! I did try what you
suggested but it didn't change matters...same problem. I can "live" without
this setup on my Vista laptop. I can always access the account through the
web or on my XP laptop with Outlook Express....Thanks for yur help!

"Gary VanderMolen" wrote:

> I believe this pertains to a GoDaddy account. They use a rather ancient server
> which is not compatible with Vista's autotuning. Try this procedure:
>
> a. Go to the Vista start menu and type cmd
> b. The search results will display a program named cmd.exe
> c. Right-click on the link and select "Run as administrator"
> d. type "netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled" without
> the quotation marks
> e. Test your POP account and see if it works now.
> f. If no success, re-enable Vista's autotuning feature by typing
> "netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=normal"
>
> Gary VanderMolen
>
>
> "DLMCC" <DLMCC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:63C9FCA9-42BF-46EB-9496-6F5021F3C4A7@microsoft.com...
> > I've setup an account correctly (followed all directions) its a web based
> > email account but when I tried sending an email got the following message
> > (did not try receiving). I had no problem when I set up the account in
> > Outlook Express;
> >
> > The connection to the server has failed. Subject 'Test', Account:
> > 'pop.secureserver.net', Server: 'smtp.secureserver.net', Protocol: SMTP,
> > Port: 80, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E
> >
> > Any suggestion(s) on correcting this problem
>
>
>