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I cannot send e-mail from alternate address

I have my primary Hotmail account, and a second e-mail (*** Email address is removed for privacy ***) that I use through Windows Live Mail. I have used both of these e-mail addresses without problems for several years. R …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 12, 2013

I cannot send e-mail from alternate address

I have my primary Hotmail account, and a second e-mail (*** Email address is removed for privacy ***) that I use through Windows Live Mail. I have used both of these e-mail addresses without problems for several years. R …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 12, 2013

I cannot send e-mail from alternate address

I have my primary Hotmail account, and a second e-mail (*** Email address is removed for privacy ***) that I use through Windows Live Mail. I have used both of these e-mail addresses without problems for several years. R …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 12, 2013

Can’t even get started w/ WLM!

I had to restore my PC so now I've lost OE and not happy at all about it. WXP SP3. I'm hoping/assuming that my address book, identities, etc. will be imported into WLM. Right? My email is via Comcast and I have 4 identit …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 12, 2013

New emails not displayed in Inbox until opened

Hi, I hope someone can assist with a new problem that has arisen with my Windows Live Mail. When new emails arrive in my default account the number of unread items shows in brackets alongside 'Inbox', and similarly in Qu …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 12, 2013

New emails not displayed in Inbox until opened

Hi, I hope someone can assist with a new problem that has arisen with my Windows Live Mail. When new emails arrive in my default account the number of unread items shows in brackets alongside 'Inbox', and similarly in Qu …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 12, 2013

My Hotmail account won’t sync with Windows Live Mail

Hello, I am using Windows Live Mail as my email client on Windows 7. Within the last few days, my hotmail account stopped syncing with Live Mail. I use a number of other email accounts from other servers and they are all …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 11, 2013

My Hotmail account won’t sync with Windows Live Mail

Hello, I am using Windows Live Mail as my email client on Windows 7. Within the last few days, my hotmail account stopped syncing with Live Mail. I use a number of other email accounts from other servers and they are all …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 11, 2013

My Hotmail account won’t sync with Windows Live Mail

Hello, I am using Windows Live Mail as my email client on Windows 7. Within the last few days, my hotmail account stopped syncing with Live Mail. I use a number of other email accounts from other servers and they are all …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 11, 2013

windows live error 0X800CCC78 can’t send email

Windows 7 Windows Live Mail 2011 I receive error code 0x800CCC78 when trying to send email. I can receive messages just fine and can send via my yahoo web service, but cannot send via windows live mail. Have tried deleti …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 11, 2013

Live Mail Keeps Freezing While Typing in a new Email

For the past few weeks I have a had a really bad problem with Windows Live Mail completely freezing up for about a minute or more at a time, while I type new emails. 1st Guaranteed Freeze Cause: It is especially guarante …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 11, 2013

My Emails go to junk

Hi, I have a business and when users register to my site we send a confirmation email that they must open and select a ink to register. At present most of these emails go to the junk folder for users with a Microsoft ema …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 11, 2013

Verify your email address

Hi i receive this mail. but i cant say that i know the e-mail adress it comes from. the mail is from *** Email address is removed for privacy *** is this a scam?? Microsoft account Verify your email address Dear User, To …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 11, 2013

I can’t open Windows Live Mail

I recently had to recover my laptop. As it came back with the original Vista OS and I had to again upgrade to Windows 7. Now I can't open Windows Live Mail. I have a icon on my taskbar and when I click it I get the Windo …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 11, 2013

live mail 2012 – hyperlinks

I have a new tablet running a full version of windows 8 and have installed windows live mail 2012. I can't get hyperlinks to work in the signatures. We found instructions for WLM 2011, but those don't work. Can you pleas …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 11, 2013

HKEY_CURRENT_USER / downloaded emails

Most of my HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry key was accidentally wiped out. Now when I start Windows Live Mail, the messages that were once displayed under "All inbox" are gone. These messages were downloaded from a POP3 serve …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 10, 2013

Lawrence Gordon

Can not send e-mail in windows live mail. I am able to receive error 451 Ox800CCC79

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 10, 2013

Invisble Email

I was alerted that I SHOULD have received an urgent email at 12:10 pm today because someone else replied to all in response to that email.. It is NOT on my Windows Live Mail "in Box" message list It IS on the webmail bro …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 10, 2013

Live email

I have been using live email for years and about an hour ago, after i ended a first time Citrix webinar, my live email wont work..it keeps sayingI am offline, but the icon shows I am logged into my Microsoft account but …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 10, 2013

Windows Live Mail will not open

I have Windows 7 and have been using Windows Live Mail for 2 years with no issues. When I try to open it, I get an error saying Windows Live Mail 2011 has stopped working. I use this email for work and have tons of email …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 10, 2013