I've been running Windows 10 and using Windows Live Mail for quite some time. I am just having this problem. When I start up the Windows Live Mail application it comes up and starts checking for new messages. I have a total of 6 email addresses that it is set up to check. It goes through the first two addresses quickly, but fails on the third. I get the following Error information on the third address:
Unable to send or receive messages for the Gmail (myemailaddressname) account. Header download for the 'Inbox' folder did not complete.
Server Response: Your IMAP command could not be sent to the server, due to non-network errors. This could, for example, indicate a lack of memory on your system.
Server: 'imap.gmail.com'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x80004005
Protocol: IMAP
Port: 993
Secure(SSL): Yes
It then goes to the fourth, fifth and sixth email address and completes them without problem. That box then stays on the screen. The program never comes up. I still see the entry graphic for "Window Live Mail 2012 Starting..." and the little spinning circle on top of it.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Windows Essentials. That did not help. The uninstall did not eliminate the email addresses that are configured. When I reinstalled, it started with email address 1 and went through to 6 and failed at the 3rd one like before.
I have gone to gmail.com and looked at email on this account. I also deleted several hundred email to make sure it was not hitting some limit of number of emails and failing because of that.
I wish that I knew how to open windows live mail without it doing the automatic send and receive on startup. I bet there is some key to hold down on startup to make it not do that, but I have no clue what that might be.
Any ideas?
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