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Message: [QUOTE="Cedders, post: 4687197"] This is usually a problem when an email program tries to send to another program, maybe the ISP's mail server or an antivirus, and after it's sent the message body, the receiving program doesn't acknowledge as it should (with a 250 code), and the connection just gets dropped. The sending program doesn't know it's been sent so tries again. For that reason, it might possibly help if you go to accounts > advanced and increase the server timeouts to, say 10 minutes. ISTR Outlook 2003 also tries to send large messages to servers even when they exceed an announced message size limit (often about 10MB or 10000000 bytes). (You can actually see the size limit by running "telnet smtp.whateveryourhostis.example.org 25" and then "ehlo host" - Outlook may ignore this information and so waste your bandwidth.) It shouldn't be necessary to uninstall the software just to turn off scanning of outgoing messages. Most AV control panels include an option for this, e.g. [URL]http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2001082921552806[/URL] Turning AV scanning off is the first thing I would try, as even if it doesn't solve the problem, it simplifies it. To monitor monthly network usage you could use a free Windows tool like NetMeter ( [URL]http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/[/URL] ). HTH CK [/QUOTE]