Can't send email on second laptop

[ocnj1]

I've been using 2 laptops for over a year and was able to receive and send
emails from both using Vista/Windows Mail, recognizing the limitations that
received emails would only appear and be retained on the latest laptop on
which I clicked the "sen/receive" button. Now all of a sudden one laptop
continues to receive and send emails perfectly, but the other laptop only
receives emails. What happened, and how can I restore this laptop's ability
to send emails?

Would appreciate any help. If you need to see the log of error messages,
please tell me how. The details scroll pass too quickly, and the windows
page on which it appears disappears before I can access it. Thanks again.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

If the error message does not stay on the screen, look for an orange
exclamation mark in a triangle, somewhere near the bottom right corner.
If you click on that, the error message should reappear. Right-click on
the error message, copy, then paste it into a reply here.

Incidentally, it is easy to fix the problem where both computers are not
receiving all emails. Go to Tools, Accounts, select your mail account,
Properties, Advanced, enable "Leave a copy of messages on server."
Depending on how much server space your ISP allows, you may want to
select one or both of the two associated 'remove' options.
Do the above on both computers.

 

[ocnj1]

Sorry, Gary, but I do not see a triangle and an exclamation point in the
bottom right. Is this supposed to be in my tool bar on the very bottom, or
one bar up, where it indicates if I'm working on line (right side) and gives
me my message count (left side). Is there any other way to access the
Windows Mail history of error messages. As I said, there is a momentary
smaller window which appears when I hit the send/receive button, but it
disappears too quickly to read the messages, or change the settings that
flash for a moment or two. Thanks.