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Old 01-24-2008   #11 (permalink)
John T.


 
 

RE: Windows Mail won't send email



"claire" wrote:
Quote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just got a new laptop w/ Vista, and I've imported all my old
> email/address book.contact information from Outlook Express.
>
> I'm currently able to receive email, but I just tried to send my first email
> and immediately got an error message back which reads:
>
> "The message could not be sent.
>
> An error has occurred."
>
> And it then provides a link to this forum. Any ideas? The email is still
> sitting on my desktop. It didn't move it to the outbox or the drafts folder,
> and it didn't even try to send the email by popping up the connections
> window. I clicked send, then the error message popped up just like that.
>
> Thanks,
> Claire

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Old 01-24-2008   #12 (permalink)


 
 

Re: Windows Mail won't send email


"John T." <John T.@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

>
>
> "claire" wrote:
>
Quote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just got a new laptop w/ Vista, and I've imported all my old
>> email/address book.contact information from Outlook Express.
>>
>> I'm currently able to receive email, but I just tried to send my first
>> email
>> and immediately got an error message back which reads:
>>
>> "The message could not be sent.
>>
>> An error has occurred."
>>
>> And it then provides a link to this forum. Any ideas? The email is still
>> sitting on my desktop. It didn't move it to the outbox or the drafts
>> folder,
>> and it didn't even try to send the email by popping up the connections
>> window. I clicked send, then the error message popped up just like that.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Claire
Were you able to transfer the accounts information, so Windows Mail
would know where to send the outgoing mail? Did the account under OE
use the HTTP protocol, which Windows Mail does not know how to use?

Does sending a message to yourself work?

If there was more to the error message, could you show us the entire
error message?


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