can't receive emails

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Brunelskipper

Can anyone help. I am unable to receive emails throught windows mail. Is it
me?
 
My problem sounds similar: I can send e mails but not receive. I can only
connect through dial up, as my broadband connection appears not to be
recognised. Nothing useful in Help menu! PR

: the
 
Go to Tools, Accounts, select the account, Properties, Connection.
Click the box to enable it, then select the desired broadband
connection (typically the Local Area Network connection).

If you still can't receive, post the error message you get.
 
The error message is simple - there isn't one - it simply wont send an email!
What is the problem - I can receive but it wont send!!!!!
 
You have to tell it how to access your email account(s).
If you are getting an error message, please post it here, and someone may be
able to help.
 
gary - I am NOT using dial up - this didn't woirk - any other ideas!!!
before I take this computer back!!
 
I am using bellsouth DSL and trying to use OUtlook express now known as
Windows mail - and it doesn't work - I can receive but can't send - i do NOT
get an error message - it just simple will not send!
 
HELLO - this has been useless as I thought it would be - - this has been such
a waste of me time - it can't be that difficult o help us as it appears there
are several of us that need help setting up windows mail so we can use
outlook express - thats right better known as windows mail but it doesn;t
work...help please!!!
 
suz said:
I can't send e-mails with windows mail - what is the DEAL
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What if any antivirus programs do you have? Some of them cause various
problems in Windows Mail.

Who is your email provider? Most Vista users use their internet provider
as their email provider also, since most internet accounts include email at
no extra charge. Windows Mail must be set up with information on how
to find your email provider (or providers, if you have more than one).
This information normally comes from your email provider, often from
their web site. However, if you tell us who your email provider is,
you can see if someone here already knows where to find the instructions.

What if any error messages do you get when you try to send mail? Show
us the entire messages.
 
It sometimes helps if you click on Tools, then Options, then Send. If there
is no check mark in the box before Send messages immediately, click on
this box and then Apply. Click on OK.
 
I'm not surprised my solution did not work for you, since it was
addressed to Patrick's issue, not to yours.

You need to give us something more to work on. What happens
when you click on Send?
All those messages you tried to send, are they sitting in the outbox?
If so, when you close Windows Mail, does it offer to send the waiting
messages?
 
Robert..I have same problem. My internet provider is Cox. Any one there know
how to find instructions...occasionally 1>2 messages are posted on Windows
Mail but 99% end up on Cox Web Mail. Has been happening for last 8 days
beginning with an outage with Cox. Pecularity is that my wife's PC is normal
& we are on a wireless network. Please advise
 
S.W. Anderson said:
Windows Mail doesn't just default to dial-up, it ' INSISTS on trying to
dial a connection, even though everything to do with dial-up is
de-selected and no dial-up connection has ever been made or existed on
this box. Meanwhile, there is a perfectly good broadband connection and
working LAN right there for the accessing.

Windows Mail can't find and -will not- recognize my broadband
connection, no matter what I do. I have spent hours today struggling to
get past that roadblock. Perfect case of "you can't get there from
here.

What I did accomplish was hosing my Internet connection. In
desperation, I thought if I created a new Internet connection from among
the blizzard of dialog boxes and windows thrown up while trying
configure Windows Mail, that that might do it. All it did was screw
things up so badly I had to delete everything that looked like an
Internet/Broadband/LAN connection and then start over from scratch.

I am not a rookie. I have set up at least a dozen different e-mail
clients on umpteen PC's and OS's going back to Windows 3.1, including
several Linux installs. I have never seen an e-mail client as
intractable as Windows Mail.

I am running Vista Home Premium on a 32-bit HP system. I use AVG Free
antivirus and have Windows Firewall turned on. I am trying to connect to
ATT&T POP3. I have all the settings, taken right off an XP box right
next to the new Vista PC. (BTW, setting up Outlook Express in XP took
about five minutes).

Windows Mail help is no help. The many popups only seemed to make
matters worse.

If anyone here has any additional thoughts or suggestions, I would
appreciate seeing them.
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Tools | Accounts
Do this for every account:
Select the account and click Properties.
On the Connection tab uncheck "Always connect to this account using:".
 
S.W. Anderson said:
Windows Mail doesn't just default to dial-up, it ' INSISTS on trying to
dial a connection, even though everything to do with dial-up is
de-selected and no dial-up connection has ever been made or existed on
this box. Meanwhile, there is a perfectly good broadband connection and
working LAN right there for the accessing.

Windows Mail can't find and -will not- recognize my broadband
connection, no matter what I do. I have spent hours today struggling to
get past that roadblock. Perfect case of "you can't get there from
here.

What I did accomplish was hosing my Internet connection. In
desperation, I thought if I created a new Internet connection from among
the blizzard of dialog boxes and windows thrown up while trying
configure Windows Mail, that that might do it. All it did was screw
things up so badly I had to delete everything that looked like an
Internet/Broadband/LAN connection and then start over from scratch.

I am not a rookie. I have set up at least a dozen different e-mail
clients on umpteen PC's and OS's going back to Windows 3.1, including
several Linux installs. I have never seen an e-mail client as
intractable as Windows Mail.

I am running Vista Home Premium on a 32-bit HP system. I use AVG Free
antivirus and have Windows Firewall turned on. I am trying to connect to
ATT&T POP3. I have all the settings, taken right off an XP box right
next to the new Vista PC. (BTW, setting up Outlook Express in XP took
about five minutes).

Windows Mail help is no help. The many popups only seemed to make
matters worse.

If anyone here has any additional thoughts or suggestions, I would
appreciate seeing them.
Click to expand...

If your internet connection still works at all, try this: Start
Internet Explorer. Click on Tools, then Connections. If
there is no dot in the circle before Never dial a connection,
click on this circle, then Apply. Click on OK.

Start Windows Mail. Click on Tools, then Options, then
Connection. If there is no check mark in the box before
Ask before switching dial-up connections, click on this
box, then Apply. If there is a check mark in the box
before Hang up after sending and receiving, click on
this box, then Apply. Click on Change, then adjust the
dot as for Internet Explorer if needed. Click on OK,
then Apply, then OK again.

Click on Tools, then Accounts, then your email account,
then properties. If there if a check mark in the box
before Always connect to this account using:, click on
this box, then Apply. Click on OK,then Close.

I'm not sure that's all you need, but it should at least get
started in the right direction.

Check here if you need instructions for setting up your
AT&T email account under Windows Mail:

http://helpme.att.net/article.php?item=10918

If you get an error message saying the page could not be
found, ignore it, go down the list on the right side to
Email, then click on it. If you don't find instructions for
Windows Mail, their instructions for Outlook Express
should also work under Windows Mail if they don't call
for the HTTP protocol.
 
In addition to what the other responders mentioned as possible
solutions, there is a possibility that your email account is corrupt.
Delete the account, restart Windows Mail, then recreate that
account from scratch.

Also, if your AVG antivirus was installed using the standard install
option, it can cause problems. Uninstall it, then reinstall using the
custom install option which allows you to deselect the email
scanning module. Do this before recreating the account.
 

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