new user very untechno-savvy with few questions re Outlook Express

Hello,

I purchased a laptop (Sony) and my cousin who is "computer savvy" set it all
up for me with Net Zero and I should be able to use the Outlook Express
program for e-mails and it always comes back with some error, i.e., email
secure:no; socket error 10060, error number 0x800CCCDE, or an error no. 3;
I want to subscribe to a news group and I cannot facilitate it, I don't know
if its the configuration of the computer or that I don't know what I am
doing? Please help, I'd like to use the Outlook Express for some e-mailing
and using the newsgroup thing. Thank you. I've been cutting off
unexpectedly often ... perhaps that could be from the Yahoo site where I
currently exist in e-mail as well/ if that's a possibility, t hen I'd try to
remain with the Outlook Express for most things.

 

I would get your "computer savvy" friend to recheck information in
Accounts>Mail>Properties>Servers.

Not sure about any possible conflict with Yahoo but I do know that the
Outlook Express server is always playing up.

 

Also look at Tools | Options | Connection | make sure "Hang up after sending
and receiving" isn't checked.


<snip> I've been cutting off unexpectedly often ...