Hi, Ella.
Have you tried creating a new News Account for the msnews.microsoft.com
server? Click on this link:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...e.mail.desktop
That should create a NEW news account for this server, subscribe you to THIS
newsgroup, and download the newest messages. Then you could find THIS
thread and try to Reply Group from that new account.
If that works, then you can simply delete the original account (unless you
are determined to track down the reason WHY it doesn't work).
Sometimes corruption creeps into accounts (both mail and news), but does not
affect the settings that are visible to us users. Creating a new account
starts fresh without that corruption.
On the Tools | Accounts screen, we can set a Default account for Mail, as
mac said, but not for News.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@xxxxxx
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
"Nelly Bly" <nellybly@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mn.bc497d870125dcd5.63005@xxxxxx
Quote:
> When I try to post to this newsgroup, or any group on msnews.microsoft.com
> from Windows Live Mail, I get a popup that reads "The message could not be
> sent. No sender was specified. Please check your news account
> configuration." I click the "ok" button and the message is sitting there
> waiting for me to try again.
>
> I checked my settings and they're just as they should be. I'm not required
> to log in so that area is blank. The port settings are the default. The
> news group came loaded on WLM but my setting matched my other news server
> settings.
>
> I have no problems with other servers, verizon.net and motzarella.org, on
> WLM. I also had aioe.org which requires no log on, like this server, and
> was able to post using it (I dropped only because it banned a newsgroup I
> like that has a funky name). I posted to microsoft.public.test using this
> news reader (MesNews) and it came through fine.
>
> I didn't really want to install another newsreader and I know this group
> can be accessed through a browser on the Microsoft site but I don't like
> using a browser for newsgroups.
>
> I have XP Pro SP2. My antivirus is Comodo and my antispywares are Adaware
> 2007, SuperAntiSpyware, and Spybot Search & Destroy. I use the Windows
> Firewall only.
>
> Ella