Vista - Windows Live Mail Photo E-Mails

On 15 May I posted about a problem with using WLM to send "photo emails" via
the virgin net server. I have since had a lot of emails back and forth to MSN
support. They have suggested (eventually) that it might be down to DetaSync
which is the protocol which is replacing Web Dev and have passd the issue to
the DeltaSync team for investigation.
Now I have a question to see if others support the theory that virgin net is
catching "photo emails" and kicking them out as spam or virus.

Are there any others who use virgin as their ISP that are having the same
problem OR are there any virgin.net users who have managed to send "photo
emails" to or from a virgin.net email address?

I've never seen this problem and I am not a Virgin user. Have you tried
sending photo emails through a different SMTP server?


"Frustrated virgin user" <Frustratedvirginuser@xxxxxx>
wrote in message news:E7CA052B-6E0B-4CFF-9A15-79B342A5B020@xxxxxx

Virgin are my ISProviders and I have email accounts that end @virgin.net. I
only have a problem with "photo emails" if I try to send from my virgin email
accounts. If I send from my hotmail account it is of course http and
therefore doesn't go through the virgin smtp server so causes no problems
(unless I send it to my @virgin.net email address as a test. That is the
reason for asking if any other readers with virgin.net email accounts have
had the same problem. It is not just this pc but two other pc's with virgin
as their ISP so the problem doesn't lie with the pc. In any case I don't know
how to "send through another smtp server" without a different ISP or an email
account from a different provider (to get one I think I would have to
subscribe to them as my ISP) which I don't want to do. In any case it would
still mean I couldn't send photo emails to anyone with a virgin.net email
address unless someone using virgin tells me otherwise!!

"osu9400" wrote:

With respect to sending through a different SMTP server, you can
do the following:
Get a free account with Gmail: http://gmail.com
Then, configure that account for POP access:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...n&answer=13273
Then, add that account to your Windows Live Mail:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...y?answer=86383

That will give you a separate POP/SMTP account (receive and send).
You could ignore its receiving capability and just use Gmail's send
feature.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP


"Frustrated virgin user" <Frustratedvirginuser@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:1AEDD1B1-6165-4E2C-9D16-36E370C8C511@xxxxxx

Thank you for taking the trouble to reply Gary.
I am a little unclear as to what exactly the end result of getting a Gmail
account would be!!?
Are you saying that I could continue to send emails using my
xxxx.xxxx@xxxxxx address (but via the Gmail smtp server) or would it
entail having a "new" email address. If the latter was the case and I
disabled the receive option would I not risk failing to receive if someone
clicked on "reply"?

"Gary VanderMolen" wrote:

You can use any return address with a Gmail account as long as
you first register it with Gmail:
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_to_...gle_gmail.html

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP


"Frustrated virgin user" <Frustratedvirginuser@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:681BEFBE-C7EA-4A02-B233-87B56067C962@xxxxxx