Live Mail has crashed twice on a Windows 8 platform.
Live Mail is updating incoming emails on an old Vista platform but will not send outgoing emails.
On the Vista platform I have deleted and re-established my account with no success correcting the outgoing mail problem.
In addition I've lost a boatload of contacts.
This has been the most stable, reliable platform for YEARS.
What gives??
When I open my 'Windows Live email account" I keep getting a popup message "We have noticed some unusual activity in your account.Your action is needed to make sure no one else is using your account.
To continue click OK.'
If I click OK, I am taken to a web page that looks like a Microsoft page asking me to confirm my account name and password, this site looks a bit suspicious to me, and therefore I am reluctant to sign in, incase somehow someone is after my password.
Is this a proper message from Microsoft, or should I be careful and how do I remove it?
Thanks for your help.
This problem has been raised by others. I cannot receive or send emails in WLM. I am continually asked for my username and password.
My wife's account works fine, so the error appears to be related to my password.
I have tried deleting my account, and restoring with a new password, as recommended in forum, but the error message is the same.
Please help!!
I am using Windows Live Mail and Windows 8.1.
It says it is trying to download 1 message. Only about one tenth of the bar is filled in. Nothing is budging. I have clicked Stop, restarted WLM, and the computer and have been to my webmail to check there is nothing oversized trying to download. Any ideas how I can fix this because at the moment if I click Send and Receive all I get is this dialogue box, still showing thte one tenth filled in progress bar.
I did visit this forum about 4 times, Nov. - Dec. 2014; always the same misery.
Check mail, close WLM. Shortly after closing, a message pops up "Recovering unused disk space" and "The folder is in use by another application".
[The only mail today was Staples-junk, McAfee is up to speed 24/7]. I was already suspicious, opened WLM, the contents of every folder accumulated between Dec. 30 [the last wholesale loss] and Jan. 17 2015 ARE TOAST, GONE again.
I was experimenting using WLM +Word Pad rich text as editor, wipe outs.
I activated Office 365 and used OUTLOOK [instead of WLM + Word Pad], wipe outs, contents periodically wiped out, so I aborted Office 365.
The craptop is ~ 8 months old, used it for 100 hours maybe?
I don't use the "Cloud " space or "One drive" [knowingly/deliberately] yet it appears, something periodically purges all mail folders.
Of course, Microsoft/Dell are out of reach, NOBODY talks to you in spite of the box still being under warranty.
Anyone, a suggestion how to avoid this software terrorism?
Split from this thread.
My Windows Live Groups wont send. I get the message about having to post in CC or BC. I tried that and it still did not work. The only way I can get it to work is to delete a group/category and create a new one using the same email addresses and setting it up the same way I set up the group I had to delete. This is crazy. I have used this function since I have had Windows Live and it has never occurred. Why all of a sudden am I having issues with that. It is not only on one of my computers, but on both. I have Windows 8.1.
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