Hi, Mom.
Vista's Mail programs have been evolving so fast that it's hard to keep up.
When Vista debuted for the public in January, Windows Mail was included. By
May, many testers were using Windows Live Mail desktop beta (build
8.0.1226). But then, in late May, several names were changed and many of us
went to the new Windows Live Mail beta (build 12.0.1184), which is the most
current beta version as of today. But new machines and Vista software
packages still come with Windows Mail It is entirely possible to run both
the original Windows Mail (WM) and the new Windows Live Mail beta (WLM) at
the same time. (All that background is just in case you stumble over
confusingly-similar names in your research, and I haven't even mentioned
names that include Hotmail.)
The shortcut version of the cure is at MVP Steve Cochran's site, as you must
have seen, based on the "Yet Another..." part of your Subject:
http://www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/
Download WLMUtil and run it. Click Clear Outbox and follow the instructions
exactly.
If you still have problems, please post back and tell us, step by step, just
what you did and what results you saw. Simply "I tried it" and "Didn't
work" don't tell us anything. We need to know exactly what you tried and
how it didn't work.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)
"Saigon''s Mom" <SaigonsMom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1C31C5BB-62C3-435F-992B-2B5E74569F2B@microsoft.com...
>I bought the laptop with Vista and Microsoft mail a week ago. At first the
> mail program worked fine, albeit slow. Now I cannot send email. No error
> message appears; the mail just goes to the Outbox and stays there. My
> server
> information is correct. (Pinetree Networks). I've tried to disable the
> McCaffree virus scanner to no avail. Every time I open Mail it "processes"
> each and every file.
>
> Not sure where to go from here. Any other suggestions?