Split from this thread.

Speaking of the death of WLM, anyone have a good alternative?  I tried T'bird and didn't like it.  Probably means knuckling-under and 'graduating' to Outlook (bloat-bloat).

Further to this thread, however, my one Microsoft POP mail account only quite recently quit working on WLM 2011 running under Vista.  After confirming the settings and trying some things suggested on 'third party' forums, I was about to give up.  But then had an idea.  I changed my WLM setting From: Log on using clear text authentication To: Log on using secure password authentication.  I hit Save and gave it a try.  No go; in fact, the error screen came up immediately, not after the usual delay from checking with the server.  So I changed it back again and, voila, now it works.  Go figure.