Alex Clayton wrote:

> Damn thing is driving me nuts. All of a sudden today my Usenet feed
> keeps going out. machine keeps asking me to log on over and over and
> even though the box is checked to save password it is still gone next
> time. Finally will let me on, then will not send messages, same thing
> over and over asking for me to log on. I finally loaded a free news feed
> that is working fine. My ISP says nothing wrong on their end, and when I
> went and tried my desktop the feed is fine it's an XP. Any ideas what
> this (Vista HP) thing is doing?

Are you talking about Windows Mail and NNTP? If you are talking about WM
and NNTP, then WM will loose the User-Id and psw for authentication.



You can give it the credentials and tell it to save them. It will work
for a second and loose them again, when repeated attempts are made to
give the credentials and save them.

This has only happened to me about five times, but what I find that
works is shut down WM, start it back-up, go to the account, set it
manually and then it will hold. But a couple of times when I did that, I
had to boot the machine to get WM to hold the user-id and psw.

"Alex Clayton" <alexx1400@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:g5jeuo$ngr$1@xxxxxx

> "the" <the@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ePnmlSt5IHA.5052@xxxxxx

>> Are you talking about Windows Mail and NNTP? If you are talking about WM
>> and NNTP, then WM will loose the User-Id and psw for authentication.
>>
>> You can give it the credentials and tell it to save them. It will work
>> for a second and loose them again, when repeated attempts are made to
>> give the credentials and save them.
>>
>> This has only happened to me about five times, but what I find that works
>> is shut down WM, start it back-up, go to the account, set it manually and
>> then it will hold. But a couple of times when I did that, I had to boot
>> the machine to get WM to hold the user-id and psw.
>>
>>

> Yes, sorry I should have mentioned Windows mail, the new version of
> outlook. It worked for a couple days fine, then this. I am using the same
> windows mail with the newsmotzarella and it works. I will try your idea
> next time see if it fixes it.
> --
> To err is human.....
> But to blame someone else shows management potential.

I know you meant to say the new version of Outlook EXPRESS. I have been
having similar problems off and on the last few days, especially yesterday.
Some threads won't allow me to reply to no matter what I do. It sends
without an error message, but the posting never shows up on the server. I
reset my router and everything. Sometimes I keep getting asked for my
credentials. It has been a mess.

Colin Barnhorst wrote:

> "Alex Clayton" <alexx1400@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:g5jeuo$ngr$1@xxxxxx

>> "the" <the@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:ePnmlSt5IHA.5052@xxxxxx

>>> Are you talking about Windows Mail and NNTP? If you are talking about
>>> WM and NNTP, then WM will loose the User-Id and psw for authentication.
>>>
>>> You can give it the credentials and tell it to save them. It will
>>> work for a second and loose them again, when repeated attempts are
>>> made to give the credentials and save them.
>>>
>>> This has only happened to me about five times, but what I find that
>>> works is shut down WM, start it back-up, go to the account, set it
>>> manually and then it will hold. But a couple of times when I did
>>> that, I had to boot the machine to get WM to hold the user-id and psw.
>>>
>>>

>> Yes, sorry I should have mentioned Windows mail, the new version of
>> outlook. It worked for a couple days fine, then this. I am using the
>> same windows mail with the newsmotzarella and it works. I will try
>> your idea next time see if it fixes it.
>> --
>> To err is human.....
>> But to blame someone else shows management potential.

>
> I know you meant to say the new version of Outlook EXPRESS. I have been
> having similar problems off and on the last few days, especially
> yesterday. Some threads won't allow me to reply to no matter what I do.
> It sends without an error message, but the posting never shows up on the
> server. I reset my router and everything. Sometimes I keep getting
> asked for my credentials. It has been a mess.

There is some kind of bug in WM about loosing the NNTP authentication
credentials, which have been discussed in the Vista.Mail NG.

And about loosing posts, that's been happening since OE, and I finally
started using Thunderbird to go see if a post has made it from WM. It
makes it, but I don't know why WM can't see the post sometimes.

"the" <the@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u5F93S35IHA.4356@xxxxxx

> There is some kind of bug in WM about loosing the NNTP authentication
> credentials, which have been discussed in the Vista.Mail NG.
>

Ok thanks. I was afraid something was wrong with this box. I will take a
look at that group. Hopefully MS will come up with a fix.
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