[access-uk] What does this mean?

I am using Outlook Express, and, until today, I've been able to send and 
receive e-mails fine. But now, I always seem to get the below error. What could 
be happening? I also get rate limited errors. Thanks. Below message is:
The connection to the server has failed ... Socket error 10060 0x800ccc0e.
Apologies if this is off topic, but I can't thihnk of anywhere else to ask 
about this annoying problem. Thanks.

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