Windows Mail

Go to tools>accounts>select your account>properties button>connection
tab>remove the check mark from 'always connect using'>Apply>OK.

WM will now use any available connection.


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Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. MAIL. [DTS] UK.
http://www.getsafeonline.org/
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/citizenship/safeandsecure/parentadvice/default.mspx

 

I have the same problem. Windows mail just deleted all its mail boxes and
refuses to accept them being replaced. It shows the message "An error
occurred while reading the new account information. No changes have been
made."
Unable to fix this, I have downloaded Windows Live mail which also refuses
to accept new mail boxes and displays the same message.

This doesn't appear to be anything to do with the antivirus program as it is
not needed to configure the mail server.

 

I don't understand your comment "This doesn't appear to be anything
to do with the antivirus program as it is not needed to configure the
mail server. " How do you know what all your security software =
interferes
with? Please provide a list of all your third party security software.

What do you mean by "refuses to accept them as being replaced"?
Please elaborate.
Have you recently added new accounts to Windows Mail?
Is any existing mail account still working?

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Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
Microsoft MVP program: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


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Check all your settings compared to this:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/pop/pop-08.html


Did you enable POP at your online mailbox?

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Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. MAIL. [DTS] UK.
http://www.getsafeonline.org/
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/citizenship/safeandsecure/parentadvice/default.mspx

 

You say "mail works fine if used directly." Please clarify.
Do you normally use the Windows Mail program or a web-based
mail service (using your browser)? If the former, your Windows Mail
may not have all its defaults assigned.
Open the Default Programs applet, which you can access either from
the Start menu or via the Control Panel, then click the first item:
"Set your default programs."
After a few seconds, a list of programs comes up. Click on "Windows
Mail". If it doesn't respond with "This program has all its defaults"
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Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
Microsoft MVP program: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


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program. Which antivirus are you running?
As a minimum, email scanning in the antivirus should be turned off,
although that may not be sufficient to eliminate all bad effects.
In a worst case scenario, your antivirus may need to be uninstalled.

Email scanning in any antivirus should be disabled, for reasons
explained here:
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm


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Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
Microsoft MVP program: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


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Thanks for your response. I'm using Sophos A-V and have been using it for the
last 10 years witout problems.
I'll try your suggestion and let you know how it goes.
Jack

 

Let us know how it goes.

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Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
Microsoft MVP program: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


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Vore som sagt kul om man fick hj??lp. HAr f??tt samma problem.....
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Kulmed fungerande Microsoft. Det g??r ju inte att ta v??ck el??ndet fr??n inboxen.
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Catwoman

 

Open that folder (Inbox?) where you see the problem, then click View,
Current View. Make sure "Show All Messages" is selected.
That setting is on a 'per folder' basis.

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Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
Microsoft MVP program: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com



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Make sure you have send authentication enabled.
Go to Tools, Accounts, select that account, Properties, Servers.
Enable the "My server requires authentication" option.=20

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1. Use separate Windows user logins. That gives total privacy, and is
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separate mail folders.

3. Upgrade to Windows Live Mail which has separate folders for each
account, no rules needed: http://download.live.com/wlmail

4. Purchase an add-on called WMIDs:
http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs
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Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
Microsoft MVP program: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


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Why should there be? Microsoft is under no obligation to make
provisions for new programs to act just like older ones.
I've listed all the available Windows Mail workarounds below.
Windows Live Mail is a different program which is handled in
a different newsgroup.

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Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
Microsoft MVP program: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


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Sorry to butt in on this thread, but shouldn't there also be an option or
add-on to make Windows Live Mail act like OE's Inbox?
Dick

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Make sure you have send authentication enabled.
Go to Tools, Accounts, select that account, Properties, Servers.
Enable the "My server requires authentication" option.

Windows Mail does not have identities like Outlook Express did.
By default, all email from all accounts goes into the same Inbox.
There are four different ways of changing that:

1. Use separate Windows user logins. That gives total privacy, and is
ideal when two different people use the same computer.

2. Use message rules to filter incoming messages into
separate mail folders.

3. Upgrade to Windows Live Mail which has separate folders for each
account, no rules needed: http://download.live.com/wlmail

4. Purchase an add-on called WMIDs:
http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs

--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
Microsoft MVP program: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

 

This group is for Windows Mail, not Windows Live Mail.

What do you mean by " like OE's Inbox?"

WM dumps all incoming email messages into one Inbox.
WLM has separate Inboxes, etc. for each email account you access. But it
has Quickviews, which can be used to see all email/all new email/ etc. in
one view.


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Dave N.
MS-MVP (Mail)
Windows 7 Ultimate
http://download.live.com/wlmail

 

User options are always appreciated. Why wouldn't you think so. (Sorry, I
meant Windows Mail, not OE).
Dick

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Why should there be? Microsoft is under no obligation to make
provisions for new programs to act just like older ones.
I've listed all the available Windows Mail workarounds below.
Windows Live Mail is a different program which is handled in
a different newsgroup.

--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
Microsoft MVP program: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

 

Microsoft has essentially abandoned Windows Mail in favor of
Windows Live Mail. There will be no updates to Windows Mail.
Why waste time wishing for things that will never happen?

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Microsoft MVP program: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


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