I have been unable to use live mail for the past few week have made several changes to the account settings. Initially I couldn't send emails and was only receiving them. After speaking with Optus was unable to send and received and making some more changes was able to send but not receive emails. So currently I am unable to received emails .

Unable to send or receive messages for the Optusnet .com account. Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity.

Server: 'pop3.live.com'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC0F
Protocol: POP3
Port: 110
Secure(SSL): No

Server was mail.optusnet.com.au as the outgoing server but either way still not working.