Using Windows 8 and Windows Live Mail 2012 which was working fine for one brief period. However, now it keeps asking for my password when sending or receiving email. The password has been entered in the account configuration and Remember Password has been checked.

Here is the complete error message received:

Unable to send or receive messages for the Cindy account. An incorrect password was entered. The next time you send or receive messages, you'll be asked to enter your user name and password for this account.

Server Error: 0x800CCC90
Server Response: -ERR syntax error
Server: 'pop.earthlink.net'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC92
Protocol: POP3
Port: 110
Secure(SSL): No

I have researched this problem ad nauseum online and found nothing even remotely resembling a solution, and nothing specifically for the Windows 8 platform, if that is a consideration.

Any helpful suggestions beyond checking my configurations (for the hundredth time) or deleting the email account and re-adding it (also tried multiple times) would be appreciated. By that I mean to say, an actual resolution.

An additional though - it is not my anti-virus email scanner as I do not even have the capability of scanning my email with the setup I have.

Thank you!

Original title: Windows Live Mail Won't Remember eMail Password

Hi,

I have some emails configured at domains.live.com. 

Could you add "reset email password" feature to my domains ?

Thank you,

An

I am having problems setting up my roadrunner email account POP3.  I have set it up in windows live mail and it was working fine until I changed the email password in RR and since it's been giving me an error after asking for the password...error message is 800CCC90 for receiving & 800CCC92 for sending.  Have called RR and everything is working on their end and have tried all day to talk with someone at Microsoft and they told me I had to go to this website to get help,  Very Frustrated and saw a similar post with this error for another Pop3.  PLEASE HELP.

I am entering the server information as pop-server.carolina.rr.com and smtp-server.Carolina.rr.com.

S. Kerschner

Until recently, when I opened Outlook Express to view emails, no password was requested. For the past several months, 9 out of 10 times I try to download new emails I have been asked to provide my password. I type in the password (correctly !!) but 8 out of 10 times it will not recognize the password as valid.

For the past two weeks, it has rejected my password EVERY time. What ????? And how can this be rectified ?? 

I'm locked out of my email accounts which I setup over a year ago and didn't really use them.  I can't remember the password and the cel phone number is not correct which would send me a code to reset it.  Nor is the email address correct as the one that is there now has been deactivated by yahoo since it wasn't used for over 1-2 years.  The secret question I answered wrongly as well. 

 

I've filled out the forms 2-3 times but due to the fact I haven't really used the accounts, i'm not sure of the answers submitted. 

 

Worse case, if I don't use the accounts, will they be released in the future to allow me to choose them again?

 

Thx Andre'