Gary,
Please "unmunge" my listed email address, send me an email and I will
provide you with the necessary information.
I am not trying to keep information from the discussion group. I am
only trying to keep my ass out of hot water with Microsoft.
Have a nice day.
C.B.
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It is the responsibility and duty of everyone to help the underprivileged
and less fortunate among us.
"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u2tyyf1aIHA.1960@xxxxxx
Quote:
> I wasn't aware that Microsoft offered windowslive.com accounts.
> The new account sign-up screen at http://get.live.com/mail/overview
> only offers @hotmail.com and @live.com as possible choices.
> (Looks like they recently dropped the @msn.com option.)
> Is windowslive.com for a special program?
> --
> Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)
>
>
> "C.B." <notreallycbcbmullen@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:FFC4D530-BF60-48AF-B70E-606E719403B4@xxxxxx Quote:
>> Winston,
>>
>> The account is a windowslive.com account. My main email account,
>> prior to installing and using WLM for the first time (because I decided
>> to start using a newsreader, which I had never used before), was a
>> premium Yahoo account with my ISP, AT&T. I migrated the Yahoo account,
>> which as you know is a POP3, into WLM. I had previously configured the
>> servers in the event I needed to use the feature in the future.
>> WLM then automatically migrated my two hotmail.com accounts into
>> itself. I then created a live.com account, which went flawlessly. I then
>> had only one problem remaining, the windowslive.com account. It simply
>> could not and would not receive and send mail. I could not send emails to
>> the account and I could not send emails from the account.
>> The new account wizard always tried to configure the account as a
>> POP3 account and I allowed it to do so. When the wizard requested the
>> servers I entered the information for my ATT Yahoo servers, thinking the
>> wizard knew best. I had completely forgotten that the windowslive.com
>> account is an HTTP account such as Hotmail. I then configured the account
>> manually with no problems whatsoever.
>> I have omitted some important information concerning this issue
>> because I don't want it broadcast throughout the discussion groups.
>> Please email me and I will let you know why I had allowed the new account
>> wizard to try to configure the windowslive.com account as a POP3 account.
>> You will then understand everything.
>> Have a nice day.
>>
>> C.B.
>>
>>
>> --
>> It is the responsibility and duty of everyone to help the underprivileged
>> and less fortunate among us.
>>
>>
>>
>> "...winston" <winstonmvp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:#gz9ABjaIHA.1376@xxxxxx Quote:
>>> C.B..If I may ask was this an msn.com, live.com, or hotmail.com
>>> account.?
>>>
>>> --
>>> ...winston
>>> ms-mvp windows live mail
>>>
>>>
>>> "C.B." <notreallycbcbmullen@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:A163F356-C936-4F28-AC0C-44410FF8289E@xxxxxx
>>>
>>> <Snip>
>>> I asked myself; why am I allowing the wizard to
>>> configure my settings? Whenever the wizard configured the server it was
>>> for
>>> a POP3 account and I simply did not notice it. I suddenly realized that
>>> my
>>> new account is HTTP and successfully configured it the first time.
>>>
>
>