During the Easter holliday and seen from my viewpoint it seems as if Google have implemented server changes that

make a difference between reliable and not so reliable email clients and unfortunately Windows Live Mail is falling on

the "bad" side of the fence. That resulted in an impossibility to access my Gmail accounts with Windows Live Mail

The result was an error code of 0x800CCC0F over and over again mixed with other error strings as well.

I am not competent enough to solve thiese kind of problems just like that but eventually I find my solution.

There is a possibility to define Google to accept these "not so reliable" applications and after lowering the bar

Windows Live Mail can climb over the fence and the mail handling works like a charm again. This is how I did it:

 On https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps there is a choice to inactivate or activate this possibility.

It seems the default is to activate this function but if you select inactivate you  have moved Windows Live Mail to the

friendly side of the fence and Gmail again works fine.

Another page is

https://myaccount.google.com/security#connectedapps far down right where you can move a slider

to the OFF (left) position which gives the same result.

It may be smarter ways of doing this but this was good enough for me.

/Gunnar Ståhl