Windows Live Mail

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Windows Live Locked

I composed an email, pressed send. The email was sent to Outbox. I opened Outbox, tried to send again and Outbox came up again. When I opened Windows Live from program file I get a screen that says it is trying to send e …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 18, 2013

Windows Live Locked

I composed an email, pressed send. The email was sent to Outbox. I opened Outbox, tried to send again and Outbox came up again. When I opened Windows Live from program file I get a screen that says it is trying to send e …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 18, 2013

Windows Live Locked

I composed an email, pressed send. The email was sent to Outbox. I opened Outbox, tried to send again and Outbox came up again. When I opened Windows Live from program file I get a screen that says it is trying to send e …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 18, 2013

can’t empty inbox

This is a new problem in past week. Before now I could empty my inbox swiftly and easily w/o having to click on each message individually (pain!). I just selected the top message, hit "control A" (for All, I guess), and …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 18, 2013

windows live mail

Unable to send or receive messages for the Sbcglobal (jmrutz) account. The connection to the server has failed. Server: 'pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com' Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC0E Protocol: POP3 Port: 110 Secure(SSL …

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Cannot find any way to add IMAP accounts

Not all mail servers allow IMAP. Check with yours. I have enabled IMAP in all my Virgin Media email accounts - but I cannot find any way to add any of those IMAP accounts in Windows Live Mail 2012?

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 18, 2013

Font size in Windows Live Mail

Is there any way to change the default font size in Windows Live Mail? I change the size for one e-mail and when I go back to compose the next the font size is back to it's default setting of 12.

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 17, 2013

Windows Live Mail Send & Receive

After upgrading my Windows 8 to 8.1, Windows Live Mail will not Send or receive emails. Windows Live Mail worked fine until upgrading to 8.1!!!! 'Unable to send or receive' Error Code ID: 0x800C013E is displayed Please h …

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Windows Live mail send receive Error

Good day My default mail is running on windows live, I'm however receiving the following error when sending and receiving on my desktop. Unable to send or receive messages for the Hotmail.co (*********) account. Server E …

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Live Mail Hotmail Account Trouble

Without warning we lost all of our contacts and Hotmail service in Windows Live Mail (2011 version). I imported an old contact list and our Pop3 emails have always been available, but when I added our Hotmail account to …

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Windows Live Mail Error

Each time I try to compose an email message in Windows live mail, I get the message "A problem has occurred while trying to open this message. A problem has occurred. Please try again." I am using Windows 8 64 bit.

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Windows Live Mail will not start

After loading Windows Essentials, Windows Live Mail will not launch. It get stuck on the "Windows Live Mail 2012 - Starting" screen. However if I go to Windows Live Mail in the "Start" menu, and select New Email, the win …

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my family

hi, my husband has a noki lumia 620 as a work phone. when trying to buy apps it tells me we need to set up my family on the website. He has a Microsoft account but it says I also need the name of his child and their logi …

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Print with Win Mail

After using Win mail for about a year with Windows 7, I suddenly cannot print certain messages. Others will work fine. The program freezes and shuts down. How do I correct this? The same message will print perfectly from …

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HELP PLEASE – TROUBLE LOGGING INTO HOTMAIL PLUS

For security, I use two-step authorization to log-in. Yesterday I changed my Hotmail Plus password, and now, after entering password to log-in, and then as 2nd step I'm prompted to request security code ( via text, phone …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 17, 2013

HELP PLEASE – TROUBLE LOGGING INTO HOTMAIL PLUS

For security, I use two-step authorization to log-in. Yesterday I changed my Hotmail Plus password, and now, after entering password to log-in, and then as 2nd step I'm prompted to request security code ( via text, phone …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 17, 2013

HELP PLEASE – TROUBLE LOGGING INTO HOTMAIL PLUS

For security, I use two-step authorization to log-in. Yesterday I changed my Hotmail Plus password, and now, after entering password to log-in, and then as 2nd step I'm prompted to request security code ( via text, phone …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 17, 2013

Windows Live Email

Windows 8, Windows Live Email I created a "favorites" which includes several email addresses when sending on some emails. The problem is that sometimes this option will not work and a note pops up saying "unable to send …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 17, 2013

Windows Live Mail Contact List Query

I was using Windows Live Mail (2012) on my old computer and an older version of Windows to sent out lots of information for my netball club. I had categorised contacts into categories. I purchased an Asus computer which …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 17, 2013

CANNOT SEND OR RECEIVE EMAIL AT ALL

I am experience a very frustrating problem which is resulting in me not being able to receive or send emails. The pop up box says server error 0x00484849 then a line saying the http server address.

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 17, 2013

windows 7 live mail

suddenly, when I click on\ an attachment to an incoming email, nothing happens. how can I correct this or at least determine whats causing it.

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 17, 2013