Why did you reinstall Windows? Did you format & reinstall?

Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It provides no
additional protection, it's the most likely cause of the problem, and even
Symantec says it's not necessary:

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Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have
the most recent virus definitions.
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http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106

Troubleshooting error messages that you receive when you are using OL and OE
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813514
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OE General newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...xpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

Alon wrote:
i get the messege :
Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection.....
0x800CCC0F

i can connect to the isp server on port 25.
i can receive but cant send mail also from the microsoft outlook 2002.

the OS windows 98 was jest reinstalled !
any ideas ?