Entourage outgoing mail problems

Help! My wife and I have been struggling since last Thursday (7/21/05)
We have two macs (2000 G3 slot-loading imac and 2005 G5 imac). The
problem is this, whenever we send outgoing mail over 2KB or with
attachments we receive Error 111:"An operation on the server timed out.
The server may be down, overloaded, or there may be too much net
traffic."

This has happened sporadically in the past few months, but never for a
week at a time. A bit more about our machines

OSX v.10.3.9 (Her machine probably has a more recent OS)
We're using Office/Entourage 2004
Our ISP is Direcway, a broadband satellite provider (we live in the
sticks)
Our email accounts are POP accounts (core.com and direcway.com)
We're on an Airport network within our home

We called the ISP for support and were told to use their cheesy webmail
program, however I send a newsletter to 400+ clients weekly and am not
willing to enter all those addresses into a webmail program with spotty
performance. However we were able to send mail with attachments from
there.

I tried pasting my newsletter addresses and text into Mac's Mail
application, but received the same server timeout message. We have
been receiving incoming mail the entire time without problems, and both
computers stopped sending simultaneously. We thought it might be the
airport network and so connected the G3 imac to the modem directly, but
the problem still existed.

We've called MS, Apple and our ISP each of which blame the problem on
the other. We both have home-based businesses and send lots of
attachments. We're getting desparate. Anyone with any ideas?

craig.DeleteThis@brownfamilyfarm.com wrote:
> Help! My wife and I have been struggling since last Thursday (7/21/05)
> We have two macs (2000 G3 slot-loading imac and 2005 G5 imac). The
> problem is this, whenever we send outgoing mail over 2KB or with
> attachments we receive Error 111:"An operation on the server timed out.
> The server may be down, overloaded, or there may be too much net
> traffic."
>
> This has happened sporadically in the past few months, but never for a
> week at a time. A bit more about our machines

Are you using "Little Snitch" on either machine? It has a problem that
affects Entourage attachments.

Regards

David

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