Sorry for the delay in responding - just got back from work.
Masai I can receive email, just can’t send any. It started yesterday afternoon for no reason at all.
So far I have uninstalled/reinstalled Norton Internet Security in case it was the firewall or anti-virus that was causing the problem but all to no avail. The message Outlook returns is: “! Task ‘pop.homechoice.co.uk – Sending’ reported error (0x800CCCOF) : ‘The Connection to the server was interrupted. If this problem continues, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).’