Steve said:
(The OP meant Windows Mail, of course).
Fascinating! I've got exactly the same problem. I've read (from the
screen) the mail account details from OE on my XP laptop and typed them
identically into WM on my Vista workstation.
Press Send/Receive, and the login fails, giving a username and password
prompt. Typing it in again makes no difference - the server just
rejects it repeatedly.
"I'll be smart", I thought, and exported the account details from my XP
machine to a network drive, and then imported them into WM. No risk of
mistyping anything.
And it still doesn't work!
What the heck?
SteveT
There are two sets of name/pw credentials, often the 'sending' SMTP
server doesn't ask because it's connected via your ISPs network (else
you wouldn't be able to use it at all) so it "Assumes" you are legit.
Sometimes it will use authentication - maybe because it allows
"Relaying" and therefore need to identify you as a legit user by other
means than the connection - so you then need a name/pw which is not
necessarily the same as for receiving your mail.
The set everybody has are the POP credentials for receiving, but often
those are sent in plain text which can be intercepted, so as well as the
"POP" (Post Office Protocol) you can use SPOP and it seems Vista not
only allows this but insists upon it. My ISP doesn't do SPOP apparently
or at least their server or Vista don't work to the same standard so as
soon as MS started messing with the original Vista Mail and then with
LMD both quit working and I decided to adopt Thunderbird, which just
"Works" like OE used to do. In fact I just set this new machine up 10
minutes ago
So you may call your ISP in case they have a quick and easy answer, but
since Thunderbird does news and mail and is like 5 times quicker you
might also consider that, especially if coming from OE.
