Error message from Windows Mail when trying to send/receive email.

[evalsinca]

Folks:

I got a new Vista Home Premium 64 bit laptop. I am using Windows Live Email
to download/send emails from the AT&T Uverse servers. Here is the error
message I get when I try to "sync" the email for this account:

Unable to send or receive messages for the Uverse Email Account 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 Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC0F
Protocol: POP3
Port: 995
Secure(SSL): Yes

By the way, windows live email with the exact same settings works fine on
Windows XP Professional (32 bit) on my old laptop.

Also, I get the same error in Windows Mail on the vista laptop (so it is not
unique to windows live email).

Any clues?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Which antivirus are you running?
Do you have your antivirus configured to scan emails?

Email scanning in any antivirus should be disabled, for reasons
explained here:
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm

Incidentally, it is better to post questions about Windows Live Mail
in its own newsgroup:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...dg=microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop
or via your news reader: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

 

[Larry]

I had the same problem when I received my new Dell PC with Vista premium.
After much effort, it was determined that I had a bad network card which was
replaced by Dell (wiithin warranty period). All is well now.