username & password denied.

[Tatyana Yvon Jeanica Hansen]

I just set up a new email account - the only one - on my new computer with
Windows Vista.

I was uncertain as to wether the email address I created had a fixed name
after the '@', but didn't know which name that would be, so I decided to
create my own name and called it ...@LastName.

After completing the setting up my email account, I went on to download
email (of which I found there're almost 300!).

But a box asking for my username and password kept popping up. Between my
filling the two lines out, I would connect to the server from which I should
be downloading my email, but nothing ewlse happened.

I realised it wasn't going to work and closed down the program.

Then a new window showed up, with a list of ionformation telling me what had
happened each time I attempted to contact the server with my emails. And it
said the same thing in all the cases: Username or password was incorrect!

Now why is this??
What's wrong?


I keep running into this type of thing all over the net. Some pages just
won't show, telling me I am not allowed to access that site - fx. a site
with links, which I had been directed to via a another link at the same web
site, which is a public blog and home site.

The old familiar error messages: Site cannot be found, and the likes, have
become rare.

All these åroblems are happening at the worst possible time. I just don't
HAVE time for it at present. So I have to admit I miss my old Windows XP. -
I never chose to get Vista in the first place. It was forced upon me, as it
will be forced on everybody in the future, because XP and other older
Windows versions no longer get's installed on the new computers on the
market.
I actually tried to install Windows XP, so I could work unhindered until I
had time to get to learn how to use Vista, but XP is incompatible with the
system.
Ah well, most of you probably know these things.

I'm sorry about my rant! I shall not repeat it.

Jean.

 

[The Bee]

Now why is this??
What's wrong?

You should call your ISP and ask them how to set up WM with a user-id
and psw, because obviously, you're not doing it right. ISP's do support
Windows Mail in connecting client machine to use their email server.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

First of all, we cannot address your non-email issues here, since
this newsgroup is meant only for support of the Windows Mail program.
If your computer is relatively new, you should take it back to the store
and demand that they fix or replace it.

As far as your email problem, I am concerned about your mention of
creating an email address. You can't just create an email address,
you must use whichever email address has been assigned to you by
your mail provider or ISP. Do you own the domain name LaForte.com?
Who is your ISP or mail service provider?