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Windows Live Mail: attachments missing

When I send emails to myself with PDF attached via Outlook or other mail programs and I receive the email within my Windows Live account in my POP3 account that I have setup in Live Mail.....the see the email but the att …

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

Live Mail will not synchronise with Hotmail accounts

I have posted this question before but I may not have been in the right section. I am going around in circles trying to fix my problem. My wonderful Live Mail will not synchronize with my 2 Hotmail accounts. I have had n …

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

Cannot send an email with Windows Live Mail now

It was working fine but then it stopped after some Microsoft updates. I've called Dell & Verizon and they both say it's a Microsoft "patch" issue. I've verified all the settings and they are correct. The "requires server …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 9, 2013

CAN’T OPEN ATTACHMENTS

All of a sudden, two days ago I can't open any attachments from my Hotmail account. For example, It says outlook (2) couldn't be downloaded? another file says: do you want to save file from blu179.afx.ms I say yes and it …

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Windows Live mail

I originally had a Hotmail account, then when I went to Windows 7 I started using the Windows Live email. So this Windows Live pulls in the soandso@hotmail.com emails just fine. Then I added another email account for bus …

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Outlook Express – Gmail Issue

I just set up Outlook Express... so i could pull my emails in one location... Well... when I did it.... it pull my gmail and account and it pulled all of them.... so I deleted most of them... thinking I was only deleting …

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Windows mail

Can I use Windows Mail with Windows 8 ? I find Outlook too sophisticated for my needs.

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Windows 8.1 Windows Live

I upgraded to Windows 8.1 and lost the contact list for Windows Live (email program). In trying to find the Contact list I searched for extension CSV and the search said no program found, BUT I had the old email list sav …

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Your email is being used by someone else

hi whenever i try to get into my account (*** Email address is removed for privacy ***) it doesn't let me and it says reset the password or fill a survey to verify thats it me,i do the survey says not enough info , only …

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Problem with sent emails

For some reason my hotmail account is sending thousands of emails to myself every day. I cleared out the sent box a couple of days ago, and when I logged in this morning to look at it, there were another 3,000 emails sen …

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Special sweedish character issue

Hi Support While i am sending email throgh PHP mail function to any other email account like as gmail and yahoo email account then there is no issue of special sweedish character. The special sweedish chareacter are show …

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Can’t access Email. Error – 0x800CCC90

Just suddenly I can't sign into my email account. I use Windows Live Mail by default and it's always signed me in automatically but now it's asking for User Name and Password. When I enter those nothing happens, only the …

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Server error while sending or recieving mail

Account: 'mail.comcast.net', Server: 'mail.comcast.net', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR invalid command', Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC18 I use my hotmail account b …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 8, 2013

hotmail (outlook) email won’t work

My Hotmail account will let me receive emails, but I cannot reply or forward. I cannot attach documents or photos from my computer And I cannot write a new email. The only menu item that shows is "New" and when I click o …

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Outlook.com slow to send emails

When attempting to send emails from 2 different computers in 2 locations, all day it has been very slow to send. A waarning message unable to send at this time apperas. When attempting a second time it goes through.

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Please help: forgotton hotmail password unable to login

Hi all This is most likely a common problem. I have forgotton my hotmail login password, I have followed the answer to the on screen prompts to reset which have so far been unsucessful. I have completed the form which a …

Unanswered Windows Live Mail Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 8, 2013