Windows Live Mail FAQ
Message: Windows Live Mail could not be started. The application was unable to open the Windows Live Mail message store. Windows Live Mail was unable to locate its message database. If you've moved the database files to a new location, click OK to reset the database path to that location. Otherwise, click Cancel to proceed.
When Live Mail then restarts it polls my online email servers and retrieves new messages. How can I try to find the missing database?
[Original title: Windows Live Mail]
I can not send emails using windows live mail. When trying to send a message, i get error 550, windows live mail error ID 0x800ccc69. How do i resolve this problem?
Original title: Error sending message
Folks
My wife uses Windows Live Mail to access her Yahoo mail account. She has always had occasional problems but recently she is probably getting something like 9 failures for every 10 attempts to access her email.
Error message is:
Secure(SSL): Yes
She is using Windows Live Mail 2012 on Windows 7 (64bit). Both Live Mail and Windows have the latest updates installed. I have run Windows Live Essentials repair a couple of times.
My wife can send mail without problems. Eventually her email will download but sometimes it has been a couple of days before she has success, other times it will work after a couple of tries.
I have triple checked the settings and they are correct, Windows Firewall is letting Live Mail through, Microsoft Security Essentials doesn't scan mail, so none of those things should be the problem. I have played with increasing/decreasing the server timeout and it doesn't make a difference.
There are two log files here: http://1drv.ms/N2cKEe if that helps.
The only thing I haven't tried doing is deleting the account and reinstalling the account. There are two reasons why I haven't done that: 1) my wife doesn't want the way she has her emails organised messed up; and 2) I would like to try to understand what the problem is.
Any suggestions, thoughts, or even better, answers will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
n2s
ok so i like the idea of windows live and its services. i find the email client to be one of the best ones.......when its working! i had a windows live update yesterday and ever since the mail client is not working telling me i am not connected to the net. however this only happens when trying to retrieve mail from live.com.au or outlook.com. this is not the first time this has happened. live mail has been bugged from the start and the only reason i stick with it is because i like it WHEN IT WORKS!
and before you all start saying edit your registry and delete your account details and renter them and turn your cords around and do a rain dance i have done all that already.
windows live 2012! try bringing things to 2014.
come on microsoft lift your game!
so i guess my question is what is a good email client that i can use to link all my emails together from live, outlook, yahoo, gmail and ISP pop server?
Just transitioned from OE6 (simple to use) and XP to Windows Live Mail 2012 and 7.
I set up a Category for a large group I work with (imported from OE6). The emails for all in the group are valid.
The first message was constructed, I selected the particular Category name I wanted and put it in 'bcc'. Cliked on the + selected group name and the bcc listing exploded to all of the names in the list. Was exploding it necessary or would it have self exploded to the list names??
Attached one small XL file.
Hit the Send button and the message hung up in my Outbox and received an Error window with code 0x000CCC0B. Discussed it with my ISP and they suggested but were not sure that there was a small limit on the number of addresses that can be sent to at one time using Windows Live Mail. Seriously??????? My list is a work list and includes 355 names. I NEVER had this problem in OE6.
Looked through the Community topics but didn't see anything addressing this (but there is a lot of info!!!)
Or am I doing something wrong?????
Help
Hi,
Excuse me in advance for any ignorance due to never posting a question on a forum before.
In December of last year I changed email provider which has caused me pain ever since. With hindsight, I should have gone down the Gmail route. I have set up my laptop and 2 x PC's with Windows Live Mail which I find to be a very good platform. They are IMAP accounts, which I believe is what my last addresses were. My issue is transferring messages by dragging and dropping. The message is not open in another window when I attempt to move it. While predominantly they move successfully, I find that there are a few stubborn messages (especially messages with attachments) that do not want to move and are starting to drive me to distraction.
I have uninstalled the program and reinstalled it to see if this remedies the situation, but to no avail. My email provider claims this is a Microsoft fault. I would have chuckled if my patience had not have been stretched by clueless fools who could not grasp the concept of empathy in an area where they should now be very capable. My apologies if I have this completely wrong.
Any suggestions will be greatly received and many thanks in advance.
Ron - I am having a similar problem with email being deleted from my phone . My cable company talked me through the same directions you shared to check the box to 'delete from server when deleted from deleted items' - and then every time I close Windows Live Mail and reopen the program that same box no longer has a check mark in it. So every time I open my email on my laptop every email is deleted from my new cell phone. any other suggestions on how to make it stick?? Thanks for any help you can provide.
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