Can receive all and send but not "Send/Receive"

[Bill Pomeroy]

If I click on the "Send/Receive" button, I get an error, but the error area
is blank and no messages are sent or received. However, If I use "Receive
All" or "Send All", or the individual accounts, then all is well. I have the
box checked to "include account when sending and receiving. These account
were transferred from Vista RC2 using Windows Easy Transfer.
Any ideas?
TIA
BillP

 

[Bill Pomeroy]

As a follow-up, when I click on the "Send/Receive" button the following
dialog box appears:
"Some errors occurred while processing the requested tasks. Please review
the list of errors below for more details." The errors box is empty. There
are no errors listed.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Your error message sounds very similar to the one I get when I
post a message to a newsgroup. My error message happens
because I have an undeletable newsgroup message stuck in my
Outbox. Strangely, I don't get an error message when sending an email.
Many people here have reported the issue with messages stuck
in the Outbox, or sometimes in the Inbox. I think these all have
a common cause, which has not been discovered yet.

There is a temporary 'fix' which requires moving/deleting both
copies of the MessageStore, but it's a tedious process with no
guarantee that the problem won't recur. My advice is to sit tight
for now, until more is known about this bug.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Guest]

Glad I'm not the only one experiencing this annoying problem!! I'll look
forward to a fix asap.

I didn't see anything stuck in my outbox, does anyone have the
'messagestore' workaround?

Also, is there a way to set up WindowsMail to just receive mail on a
schedule (options appear to only allow send & receive on a schedule)

Thanks!

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Glad I'm not the only one experiencing this annoying problem!! I'll look
forward to a fix asap.

I didn't see anything stuck in my outbox, does anyone have the
'messagestore' workaround?

I'm curious why you'd want to use the MessageStore deletion workaround
if you have no stuck messages? Count yourself lucky.

Also, is there a way to set up WindowsMail to just receive mail on a
schedule (options appear to only allow send & receive on a schedule)

No, but sending is automatically suppressed if there's nothing in the Outbox.

 

[Bill Pomeroy]

Gary,
Thanks for your reply. I have no stuck messages. To reiterate, The
"Send/Receive" button causes the error.
"Send All" and "Receive All" as well as individual accounts work.
New outgoing messages and postings to newsgroups are sent.
No mail or newsgroups are received UNLESS I manually poll the mail/newsgroup
account.
No error message appears in the lower right hand corner of Windows Mail
UNLESS I click on the "Send/Receive" button.
"Check for new messages every x minutes" does not retrieve messages nor does
it produces an error message.
Hope this helps.
BillP

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

The symptoms you are describing are very puzzling, and I don't
have any further advice for you at this time.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[BillP]

Anyone else care to help? How about a MS MVP?
BillP

 

[Steve Cochran]

I don't think there is much resolution at the moment. I've heard others
with similar issues.

You can try this, but I don't think it addresses your issue:

1. Go to the Vista start menu and type cmd
2. The search results will display a program titled cmd
3. Right-click on the link and select "Run as administrator"
4. type "netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled" without
the quotatioin marks
5. Test your POP account and see if you can now download your mail.
6. If nothing changes, reenable the autotuning feature by typing
"netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=normal"


steve

 

[Guest]

actually..... I fixed the problem by changing the permissions on my user
account in Vista and set it to the same as administrator. Now when I click
send & receive in Windows Mail, it does! It also does it on the 10 min
schedule I selected. I know this maybe isn't resolving the cause of the
problem, but it is a quick 'fix'

 

[Steve Cochran]

That's good feedback. Was that a clean install or an update? Or was that an
additional user account?

You can go to secpol and then play with user rights assignments and see if
you can adjust whatever. I don't know what could be involved as all those
are rather extensive, but if you wanted, you could play with that.

steve

 

[Guest]

Well, not sure I know much - I'm new to Vista and don't understand half of
this. I was migrating from an XP system to a new Vista system and did the
"Easy Transfer". I still had to manually import the email files, but the
email accounts came over - nothing additional added. I went into Vista to
change permissions.

Never heard of secpol - was that a race horse ;-)

Anyway, I'm just thrilled it's working with minimal tweaking!

 

[Bill Pomeroy]

Jerry,
Thanks for your reply, but my account is already setup as administrator.
What was your account initially setup as and where did you change it,
Control Panel/User Accounts/Add or Remove User Accounts?
TIA
BillP

 

[Bill Pomeroy]

It appears that when I used Windows Easy Transfer to transfer my email and
newsgroups from RC2 to Gold, that news.microsoft.com was created twice, but
one of the accounts was hidden, how I don't know. What I did to discover
this was delete all of my email and newsgroup accounts, one by one,
restarting Windows mail after each account deletion. After deleting
news.microsoft.com and restarting Windows Mail, new.microsoft.com (copy)
appeared. I deleted this account as it was the last one, restarted Windows
Mail, now with no accounts. I added one email account and tried the
"Send/Receive" button. IT WORKED!!!. I added news.microsoft.com and included
it when checking for new messages. Tried the "Send/Receive" button and it
STILL WORKED!! Added back all my remaining email and newsgroups accounts and
ALL IS WELL!!
For others having this problem, try deleting just the default
news.microsoft.com newsgroup, restart WM and then try the "Send/Receive"
button. It may be that the duplicate newsgroup was responsible for the
problem.
Hope this helps others.
BillP