Hello. Tom here.

I've had this same problem ever since I joined Windows Live Mail, 3/19/2012, over a year ago. When I signed up the history of emails from the Yahoo account I had been using loaded into the Windows Live Mail inbox, all 26,572. Since then, if I select a response from some place that causes my default email account to launch, Windows Live Mail launches as the default and I can send an email message as it should. I can generate a new mail message in the Windows Live Mail account and it sends the email just fine. Sending outgoing emails is as it should be. The problem is that, since the moment that the Windows Live Mail account loaded the emails from my history, I have not been able to receive any further emails. When I attempt to receive into my inbox, the Windows Live Mail window popsup, as is normal, and the progess bar starts as is normal until it reaches about halfway across the progress bar. Then, the connection closes and the error message appears. I receive the same message each time, which I will copy below.

Just for the record, my Yahoo email account, the same account that Windows Live Mail downloaded the history of emails from, is the same account that I have always had as part of my internet provider package and it has always worked as it should, prior to, and subsequent to, signing up with Windows Live Mail a year ago. I continue to receive and send emails there without problems. My email address has been the same sine the 1990s, no change there, and my email addres is always the same everywhere I have had any email reference.

I don't know why Windows decided not to make Outlook, Live Mail, or whatever, a part of 7. I was doing fine with Outlook for more than a decade and I would not have switched from XP if I knew Outlook would not be supported - but - we are here now and I would really like to get Windows Live Mail up and functioning properly.

The error message;

Unable to send or receive messages for the *** Email address is removed for privacy *** account. Your server has

unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server

problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity.

Server: 'pop.att.yahoo.com'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC0F
Protocol: POP3
Port: 995
Secure(SSL): Yes

Original title: Windows Live Mail error message oX800CCC0F

Thanks to all

Tom