I have used DSL more than a year, just sent a 5 MG attachment, and still
have the server timeout set to 1 minute.
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Ron Sommer

"TC" <biz2tc@turnpike.me.uk> wrote in message
news:1135455505.950529.238470@g49g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> E-mails with attachments were hanging during the send process and then
> timing out. I am now fairly sure that increasing the server timeout
> setting from a default of 1 minute was the answer. I just wish that
> I'd realised this simple fact sooner but, having only recently switched
> to broadband, I had never encountered this issue before.
>
> For information purposes, this setting is found in
> Tools\Accounts\Properties (button)\Advanced (tab). If a user has more
> than one e-mail account, it has to be altered for each account.
>
> Thanks for all the input everyone. It's really due to you that I
> re-evaluated my approach and discovered that I had overlooked something
> quite elementary.
>
> TC
>