Windows Live Mail: problems sending hotmail

[nonlinear]

about 4 or 5 days ago, my Windows Live Mail stopped sending emails from one of my hotmail accounts. I'm just using the default settings (these have worked for a year now), and I'm still able to receive email in both accounts, and send mail from one account. Does anyone know how to fix this? the error i'm getting is:

An unknown error has occurred.

Subject 'Re: '
Server Error: 503
Server Response: 503 5.5.2 Only one STARTTLS command can be issued per session
Server: 'smtp.live.com'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC65
Protocol: SMTP
Port: 587
Secure(SSL): Yes

Thanks!

[takkyu]

Do you use AVAST! for your Anti-Virus solution?

There's a newsgroup post on Microsoft suggesting that the email scanning module is troublesome:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail&tid=bd050ad4-5315-4f9f-a18e-65e96d3d05f4&mid=885d4484-1a7e-4142-bc34-ad58dc62f329&cat=&lang=&cr=&sloc=&p=4

[nonlinear]

thanks man, that worked great :thumbsup: