Thanks, I finally found the section and altered the timeout from 120 to 500 and restarted my computer.

Sent off an e-mail and once again it timed out on the 60 sec mark. Reset Avast back to 120 and changed outlook express timeout to 2 min, restarted and sent the e-mail again, this time the message appeared at 120 sec. So this is what is causing the problem, so I have set it at 5 min as this should pass 90% of my e-mails.

Thanks once again for your help, also I managed to see how to get Avast to print on the e-mails sent and rcvd.

Have a merry Christmas

Jorgo