A friend operates Windows 2000 Professional with Outlook
Express as his mail client. His Reply feature doesn't work
and he gets an error message that reads as follows;

An unknown error has occurred. Subject 'any e-mail',
Account: 'pop.earthlink.net', Server: 'smtp.earthlink.net',
Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number:
0x800CCC0B

I understand there is a hot fix for this from Microsoft but
I wasn't able to download on his computer. Also if there is
a work-around I sure would appreciate knowing what it is
and how to use it. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Mike