This same problem happened to me today. I am using Windows Mail with my Vista
fetching mail from Yahoo!. even though I already tick the "leave a copy of
messages on the server" still it downloads the all my mail from my
yahoomail...
Is there some other to stop it!!! Frustrated!
"Ildhund" wrote:
Quote:
> You should be able to access your inbox via webmail at
> http://bt.yahoo.com/webmail
>
> To send with btopenworld.com, SSL should *not* be enabled. Check,
> too, that "My server requires authentication" *is* selected on the
> Servers tab.
> --
> Noel
>
> "tinwep15" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
> news:80483793d8c70a6f725608e7814a16eb@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote:
> >
> > Gary,
> > many thanks for your response and sorry for the confusion. My
> > Yahoo
> > Inbox is empty, that much is obvious. Please ignore my ignorance,
> > but
> > how do I "check via webmail" what, if anything, remains on the
> > server?
> >
> > Following my post last night I learnt a little more about Live
> > Mail and
> > and some of what my son did: he downloaded Live mail and tried to
> > set-up
> > a new account for himself on his laptop... but unfortunately (I
> > have my
> > doubts!) used my email address. Why I don't yet know. Checking the
> > properties of the new account, on the Advanced tab, the box to
> > leave a
> > copy of the mail on the server was not ticked.
> >
> > I'm far from being able to say I understand what's going on, but
> > it
> > does look as if the Yahoo server is empty.
> >
> > Mike's suggestion of sending the mail back to myself is something
> > I
> > tried last night too... but although the Live Mail account appears
> > to be
> > able to receive my mail, it refuses to send anything, returning an
> > error: cannot connect to server, error code 0x800CCC0E. I think
> > I'm
> > using the correct server address (mail.btopenworld.com), SMTP,
> > port 25
> > and I have SSL enabled.
> >
> > Any further thoughts?
> >
> > Many thanks... Paul
> >
> >
> > --
> > tinwep15
>
>