Passport connection hangs Windows Mail

[Alain]

I have faced repeted hang ups of Windows Mail when trying to post to this
newsgroup, because of the requirement to connect to Passport...

Apparently, there is a precise sequence that must be followed? First click
on "Microsoft Communities..." to open the folder. THEN click the "connect"
button BEFORE beginning to compose a message...?

Otherwise, when II just click "answer to the group" and type my message, I
get a window with an identification pb when I try to post. Thsi window never
disappears! It has just a link to find help on the web, no help is never
found, and then I must kill Windows Mail but pressing ctrl-alt-del etc. etc.

The same pb appears when I save the message while typing it and try to
restart from its saved copy... Often, the saved message body is actually
lost, or the message is saved as a RECEIVED message that I cannot modify,
instead of a message that I was EDITING...!!!

I cannot believe that such a mess still remains in Vista SP1, which does not
add any interasting functionality over XP, while XP was so reliable!

Please give me the exact procedure to follow to send a message here, if
there is one, so that I don't crash Windows Mail by following my intuition
when answering a message!

 

[mac]

I have faced repeted hang ups of Windows Mail when trying to post to this
newsgroup, because of the requirement to connect to Passport...

Apparently, there is a precise sequence that must be followed? First click
on "Microsoft Communities..." to open the folder. THEN click the "connect"
button BEFORE beginning to compose a message...?

Otherwise, when II just click "answer to the group" and type my message, I
get a window with an identification pb when I try to post. Thsi window
never disappears! It has just a link to find help on the web, no help is
never found, and then I must kill Windows Mail but pressing ctrl-alt-del
etc. etc.

The same pb appears when I save the message while typing it and try to
restart from its saved copy... Often, the saved message body is actually
lost, or the message is saved as a RECEIVED message that I cannot modify,
instead of a message that I was EDITING...!!!

I cannot believe that such a mess still remains in Vista SP1, which does
not add any interasting functionality over XP, while XP was so reliable!

Please give me the exact procedure to follow to send a message here, if
there is one, so that I don't crash Windows Mail by following my intuition
when answering a message!

Turn the Passport feature off, it is very buggy.
Tools>options>general tab>disable 'use newsgroup ratings feature'.

It sounds like your database as been corrupted in some way, do you have any
3rd party programs set to scan mail, anti virus for instance? If so disable
that part of it, it offers no additional protection.

Try using this utility to repair and compact the mail store, with WM closed

WMUtil http://www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/

 

[Alain]

« Turn the Passport feature off, it is very buggy.
Tools>options>general tab>disable 'use newsgroup ratings feature'. »

Great, thank you! I really don't care about evaluating posts!!! I thought it
was mandatory to offer some kind of access filtering to the Microsoft
newsgroup!
I even had to recreate a Passport account since my old one from years ago
was apparently cancelled, perhaps because I was once prompted to create it
but never used it!