"Unexpectedly terminated" is usually caused by interference from an
antivirus program. Which antivirus are you running?
As a minimum, email scanning in the antivirus should be turned off,
although that may not be sufficient to eliminate all bad effects.
In a worst case scenario, your antivirus may need to be uninstalled.
Email scanning in any antivirus should be disabled, for reasons
explained here:
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm
If no improvement after disabling email scanning, consider upgrading
to Windows Live Mail, because it is less prone to suffering bad effects
from overly intrusive antivirus programs:
http://download.live.com/wlmail
--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/def...le/vandermolen
"wickerdave" <> wrote in message news:8EA951E1-B8E2-4361-B5D6-...
> All of a sudden I can't send email, the error message that I get is below.
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> Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for
> this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of
> inactivity. Subject '1st snowfall of the year', Account: 'mail.mchsi.com',
> Server: 'mail.mchsi.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket
> Error: 10053, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F
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