Windows Live Mail

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Sending emails

Just recently Windows Live is unable to send any outgoing emails from any of the three email accounts I have. They all receive emails OK, just won't send them. It isn't the email account as I'm able to send if I go direc …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 15, 2014

Webmail and essentials

I can login to my hotmail account using a web based outlook brouser to read my mail but when trying to add the same account with the same user name and password in essentials it will not reconise the password. Everytime …

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Live mail

6 days and counting. Could not send or receive mail from my Live Mail account. This morning all of a sudden there were 195 messages unread. Over night?? Did not do anything except go to bed. Now, have messages but cannot …

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log on using clear text authentication

Hello, I would like to use Windows Live Mail, but I have a concern about using clear text authentication. Does this mean that someone could possibly get my log on details over the web? My outgoing SMTP and incoming POP3 …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 15, 2014

Log on using clear text authentication

Hello, I would like to use Windows Live Mail, but I have a concern about using clear text authentication. Does this mean that someone could possibly get my log on details over the web? My outgoing SMTP and incoming POP3 …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 15, 2014

Log on using clear text authentication

Hello, I would like to use Windows Live Mail, but I have a concern about using clear text authentication. Does this mean that someone could possibly get my log on details over the web? My outgoing SMTP and incoming POP3 …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 15, 2014

Log on using clear text authentication

Hello, I would like to use Windows Live Mail, but I have a concern about using clear text authentication. Does this mean that someone could possibly get my log on details over the web? My outgoing SMTP and incoming POP3 …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 15, 2014

Converting all caps to lowercase in Windows Live Mail

Sometimes in WLM I will type a sentence only to discover the caps lock was left on. Is there any way to highlight the sentence and use a short cut key stroke to convert the caps to lowercase so I don't have to retype the …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 14, 2014

Windows live mail username and password

I recently changed my Microsoft password, with which I can go online via the Microsoft website to view my mail, however when I changed the password on my mail settings on my laptop, it says that my username or password a …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 14, 2014

Security Credentials

How do I change my security email address and phone number without locking the account for 30 days?

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Unable to sync with MSN mail using Windows Live Mail

I have tried several times to get Windows Live Mail to sync and download my MSN email account. Windows live adds the account ok but when it tries to sync I get the following error Unable to send or receive messages for t …

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microsoft.com email alias problem

this might be wrong product/category posting but it's best I could guess...I desperately need your help fixing my error. In the process of trying to get my microsoft.com account (primary alias email1) to sync with my com …

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Not receiving any incoming Email on Live Account

I would really appreciate someone's help. I rely totally on my email account. After doing a big cleanup on my email account, a day later I have stopped receiving any new emails. This is now over 5 days ago. I can send em …

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Live email Works for one User Not 2nd user

I have uninstalled, reinstalled, run the fix wlarp, checked the services, restarted the Live Id service; finally uninstalled the user and recreated the user. That worked the first time and not there after.

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6 weeks been blocked out of emails and no way in!?

Begging if December my email account said I'd entered an incorrect password, this later showed either my emails were hacked or I'd opened spam. For the past 6 weeks I've called spoken to numerous online chat advisors, fi …

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Enquiry about Windows Live Mail

To Whom May Concern, Could anymore explain to me what is the difference between the server type of IMAP and Windows Live Hotmail in "Configure server settings". Furthermore, if I setup my hotmail or outlook email address …

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Sent emails land in Outbox

Here's the message I receive when I try to send an email. "The message could not be sent. The setting for your outgoing email [SMTP] server might need to be configured. To find the server settings for '*** Email address …

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Windows Live Mail

Have today been unable to recieve emails but can send them. Error message 0x 800CCC90 keeps coming up. "Unable to send or receive messages for the Bigpond (loriemerson) account. An incorrect password was entered. The nex …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 14, 2014