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It has become obvious over time that MSFT is actively sabotaging Live mail since it got millions of people to depend on it and then decided to dump it. Windows updates routinely cause Live Mail errors which i believe are intentional, to force folks to use the outlook option.  My Live will work just fine for weeks and then start throwing out a cascade of errors, like empty msgs, "cannot connect to server" and any other crap they can dream up to get it not to work properly.  They thought they got rid of it when they forced you to change settings from pop3 to imap as most users just gave up and went with Outlook.  Now you have to rotate In/Out server settings every few months as the old ones simply stop working.  So if you can't get Live mail to work correctly, it is because your not supposed to.  MSFT decided to make a change and they have been been particularly customer focused anyway so it is nothing new.