Using Windows Live iin Windows XP

[Angel]

Hope you can help me. I am able to send sometimes but I cannot receive
messages, I do not know if I have my settings right or what is wrong. Please
help?

Angel

 

[Paul]

Hope you can help me. I am able to send sometimes but I cannot receive
messages, I do not know if I have my settings right or what is wrong.
Please help?

Angel

Your mail provider gives you IP addresses to work
with (smtp.myisp.com pop3.myisp.com) or gives you
other details about whether the service uses IMAP or POP3
or whatever.

You need to give some kind of detail, if you expect
an answer.

On my first broadband account here, I was given a card with
all the details printed on it. And that's where I'd look when
I needed the info.

Paul

 

[Good Guy]

Hope you can help me. I am able to send sometimes but I cannot receive
messages, I do not know if I have my settings right or what is wrong.
Please help?

Angel

who is your ISP or who have you got your email with? If your email is
with hotmail, gmail, yahoo, livecom or outlook.com then WLM should be
able to configure your settings automatically and you won't have any
problems.

If your email is with third party providers then WLM may not know them
and so you need to get the settings from their website.

You can tell us who is your email provider so that somebody here can
search it out.

 

[Angel]

It is POP3 Server.

 

[Angel]

I think I found the problem, I think the AVG blocked the message. It did for
the above message from me. Only time will tell, I will let you know if it
did.
Angel

 

[Angel]

It is POP3 Server.

 

[Angel]

Sorry for the double post. Had problem sending the first one and then it
posted both!
Angel

 

[Paul]

It is POP3 Server.

Then somewhere in the email setup, you need
to enter two email addresses, one for POP3 and
one for SMTP (outgoing). In the picture here,
the outgoing is on the right. There are various
port number choices. Ticking "requires a secure
connection (SSL)" likely changes the port value for
you automatically.

http://exchangeserverpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/exchange-2010-pop3-client-settings-02-b.png

The possible values of ports for SMTP are mentioned here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smtp

"SMTP by default uses TCP port 25
... using SMTP on TCP port 587
... by SSL ... to port 465"

The same selection process is used for the incoming server.
It's on the left in the dialog, and a port number
is required there too. This Wikipedia article
mentions the port numbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_Protocol

"A POP3 server listens on well-known port 110.
... or Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) on well-known TCP port 995."

Normally, I would recommend watching the transaction
with a copy of Wireshark, but if the session is
encrypted, there is little to see. You can see
if the server responds at all. My old ISP, for example,
turns off "ping" support on the mail server, so you can't
even verify the address by sending a ping to it. I
would have to use the following instead.

Another thing you can try, is use the "telnet" program
and try a login that way. This is just to give you
some hint of what a session might look like.

telnet smtp.myisp.com 25
help
quit (or exit)

You can attempt a similar session with the pop3 address.
This is for incoming mail, so requires authentication.
The user may require some consideration, as to the proper
format. I think my ISP uses "(e-mail address removed)" as the
format for the user. Tech support at the ISP may be able
to help with the proper format if that doesn't work.

telnet pop3.myisp.com 110
user xxxxxxxx
pass yyyyyyyy
quit (or exit)

These kinds of Command Prompt sessions, are to
verify the addresses work. If you can login, then
that helps prove you're authenticated for the server.

My former ISP had several POP3 addresses, and I would
only have an account set up on one of them. And using
the telnet idea, is how you'd verify the account
was still present.

I'm not an email expert, and this answer is just
to give you a flavor as to how to approach the problem.

Paul

 

[Angel]

I can send OK but not receive ok!
Angel

 

[Don Phillipson]

I can send OK but not receive ok!

Repost including the account settings for both sending
(POP) and receiving (SMTP).

 

[Angel]

SMTP 465 POP 995
Angel

Repost including the account settings for both sending
(POP) and receiving (SMTP).

 

[Angel]

SMTP 465 and POP 995

Angel

 

[Angel]

SMTP 465 POP 995
Angel

Why do you ask? Sometimes I can receive and sometimes I can't.
What causes this?

Angel

 

[BillW50]

In Angel typed on Sun, 23 Mar 2014 09:53:20 -0400:

Why do you ask? Sometimes I can receive and sometimes I can't.
What causes this?

Angel

Most likely reason is that the news server is busy or down. Not seeing
your error, we can only guess.

 

[Angel]

In Angel typed on Sun, 23 Mar 2014 09:53:20 -0400:

Most likely reason is that the news server is busy or down. Not seeing
your error, we can only guess.

--
Bill
Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2

This is the error I get:
ERROR: Unable to send or receive messages to the ---@------. account,
Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection,
Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a
long period of inactivity.

Server pop.att,yahoo.com
Windows Live error ID 0x800CCOF
Portocol POP 3
Port 995
Secure(SSL) yes

Angel

 

[BillW50]

In Angel typed:

This is the error I get:
ERROR: Unable to send or receive messages to the ---@------. account,
Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection,
Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems,
or a long period of inactivity.

Server pop.att,yahoo.com
Windows Live error ID 0x800CCOF
Portocol POP 3
Port 995
Secure(SSL) yes

Yes that is a server problem and not on your end. Also I hope that:

Server pop.att,yahoo.com

Is a typo. As that coma should be a period.

 

[Angel]

In Angel typed:

Yes that is a server problem and not on your end. Also I hope that:

Server pop.att,yahoo.com

Is a typo. As that coma should be a period.

--
Bill
Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2

I made the mistake when I typed it in the message to the newsgroup. It was
not a typo in the error message.

sorry about that.

Thanks for the info.

Angel

 

[Paul]

This is the error I get:
ERROR: Unable to send or receive messages to the ---@------. account,
Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection,
Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a
long period of inactivity.

Server pop.att,yahoo.com
Windows Live error ID 0x800CCOF
Portocol POP 3
Port 995
Secure(SSL) yes

Angel

The server is probably pop.att.yahoo.com with three periods in the name.

The error number is probable 0x800CCC0F with the three C's in a row.

One suggestion from an MVP, is that the resident antivirus program
causes this. But respondents never seem to have an AV in the way.
So if an AV program causes the problem, disabling it temporarily
doesn't always solve the problem. The problem could be at the
server end.

One other user tried temporarily disabling SSL, using the setting

"The server requires a secure connection box (SSL)"

That will change the port number from 995, to another number.
If that works, then the problem could be on the server end.
Yahoo may not support an insecure connection at all, and it
might insist on 995. So we can't really be sure that would
work either. But if you're desperate, you can try toggling
that setting and retest.

*******

This page shows a recipe for testing port 995.

http://www.anta.net/misc/telnet-troubleshooting/pop.shtml

openssl s_client -connect pop.att.yahoo.com:995 -quiet

USER MyUsername
PASS MyPassword
LIST
QUIT

I selected those options out of the example, so that they
won't make any changes to the incoming emails. The "RETR 1"
and "DELE 1" commands would be reading and deleting an email,
and you don't want to do that while doing a quick test of the
POP3 server over secure port 995.

For OpenSSL, the OpenSSL web page lists only the one freebie
for Windows. Since you're typing a username and password into
a tool like this, it's a security issue. It would be like
someone offered you a free version of Telnet. It would have
the same kinds of exposures.

http://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html

http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

This is a virustotal scan of the "light" executable.

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...29550411d157bda6f51dc0b076be77672bd/analysis/

I don't know any more about it than that.

*******

You can also test, using another boot OS (like if the computer
is dual boot, with two OSes). Or test using another computer
in your house. Using the same test parameters, enabling
a secure connection to 995 and 465 or whatever.

Paul