Vista - Cannot setup AOL or Yahoo mail with Windows Live Mail

I installed Windows Live Mail and have tried to set up both my AOL and Yahoo
(Yahoo Plus) email accounts. I get error messages with both. My hotmail
account is working fine.

The error message I get with Yahoo is:
Unable to send or receive messages for the Yahoo account. The connection to
the server has failed.
Server: 'pop.mail.yahoo.com'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC0E
Protocol: POP3
Secure(SSL): No
Socket Error: 10060

The error message I get with AOL is:
Your IMAP command could not be sent to the server, due to non-network
errors. This could, for example, indicate a lack of memory on your system
Configuration:
Account: Aol (username)
Server: imap.aol.com
User name: (username)
Protocol: IMAP
Port: 143
Secure(SSL): 0
Code: 800ccc0e

Has anyone had this problem before? Is there some kind of initial setup I
need to do to Windows Live Mail to be able to add new email accounts?

Thank you!

Your settings are wrong. Here are the ones for Yahoo Plus:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mai...op/pop-14.html
and for bog-standard AOL:
http://postmaster.aol.com/imap/express.html

If you follow these slavishly, it should work. Good luck!
--
Noel

"TracyChicago" <TracyChicago@xxxxxx> wrote in
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Thank you for the information! I got it to work for AOL! Unfortunately, it
did not fix my problem with Yahoo. I have updated the setting. Now the
error I get with Yahoo is:

Unable to send or receive messaged for the Yahoo (username) account. The
connection to the server has failed.
Server: 'plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC0E
Protocol: POP3
Port: 995
Secure(SSL): Yes
Socket Error: 10060

Any other suggestions?? Thank you!

"Ildhund" wrote:

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:20:49 -0500, Ron Sommer wrote:
I am reasonably certain that Yahoo! is moving POP3 to work with port 995,
and requires selection of SSL. I don't have a U.S. paid account to play
with, but I do have a co-branded ISP account, and a free Yahoo! Japan
account. Both work with port 995 and SSL.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

I am using Symantec. This is my company's laptop and all of the selections
on the "Internet E-mail Auto-Protect" page in Symantec are greyed out.
However, most are unchecked. I don't know if that tells you anything...

thanks!

"Gary VanderMolen" wrote:

The settings page I posted yesterday gives the following:
Incoming Mail (POP3) Server: plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com (Use SSL, port:
995)
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server: plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com (Use SSL,
port: 465, use authentication)
Account Name/Login Name: Your Yahoo! Mail ID (your email address
without the "@yahoo.com")
Email Address: Your Yahoo! Mail address (e.g., user@xxxxxx)
Password: Your Yahoo! Mail password

So, SSL all round and authentication to send. Another pitfall is the
Account Name - it /says/ 'without the @yahoo.com'.
--
Noel

"N. Miller" <anonymous@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1jj9paswcf08o.dlg@xxxxxx

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mai...op/pop-30.html
The above link must have a mistake on several of the email program setups,
because it says not to check SSL.
The main point is do not check any of the authentication settings on the
server tab.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eEQZ9lpoJHA.4540@xxxxxx

Yes, I noticed that. Some pages there are clearly older than others.
It does say somewhere, though, that if you're having problems with
POP or SMTP to turn SSL off and use ports 110/25 or 587, so perhaps
that's what the OP should try next. Increasing the timeout wouldn't
hurt, either.
--
Noel

"Ron Sommer" <rsommer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OUJqtaqoJHA.4372@xxxxxx

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:33:59 -0000, Ildhund wrote:
Indeed; SSL all around.

As for the authentication, I have successfully used just the name part, and
even Yahoo! Personal Profile IDs associated with accounts; except for the
co-branded ISP sub accounts. Those are not in the 'yahoo.com' domain, and
the domain name must be specified in order not to be confused with similar
user names in the 'yahoo.com' domain: I.e., I need to sign in as
'%User_ID%@pacbell.net' in order not to be confused with
'%User_ID%@yahoo.com', or any of the other legacy AT&T domain names.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum