Vista - unable to check for new messages

hi just wondering if this is a general issue or just me - windows live mail
desktop beta was working perfectly up till yesterday - 29th June but now
whwnever I start it up I get this error - Unable to poll for new messages on
your HTTP server. Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: 'An error has occurred.',
Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x8004108D. I have uninstalled and
reinstalled it but still same error - any ideas? - im using windows firewall
so that shouldnt stop it and I have added it as an exeption in there but
still no joy

I was looking at this page and there seemed to be some good things to try:
http://forums.techguy.org/archive-we...try-again.html

"Jeffheal" <Jeffheal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> hi just wondering if this is a general issue or just me - windows live
> mail
> desktop beta was working perfectly up till yesterday - 29th June but now
> whwnever I start it up I get this error - Unable to poll for new messages
> on
> your HTTP server. Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: 'An error has
> occurred.',
> Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x8004108D. I have uninstalled
> and
> reinstalled it but still same error - any ideas? - im using windows
> firewall
> so that shouldnt stop it and I have added it as an exeption in there but
> still no joy