Windows Mail Refresh

[Tootle]

When I open my Windows mail, it receives all my email. However, when I try
to refresh, I get a message that there was an error but it gives no error
detail. To get new emails, I have to close the program and reopen. Any
suggestions?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

How do you "refresh"?
Have you tried clicking on the Send/Recv button? If that doesn't work
either, click the little button on the far right of Send/Recv. That will reveal
the sub-commands. Try those one at a time, then report back which ones
work.

 

[Steve Cochran]

Check for antivirus interference. See point 3 here:
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

steve

 

[Canuck57]

When I open my Windows mail, it receives all my email. However, when I try
to refresh, I get a message that there was an error but it gives no error
detail. To get new emails, I have to close the program and reopen. Any
suggestions?

I too have had MS mail problems as of late with IMAP and POP3. Hearing
Win 7 doesn't come with a mail client, and Live Mail looks like it
uploads stuff, I opted out and loaded Thunderbird. Works great and
hasn't errored once.

 

[Tootle]

My old email program automatically received mail at certain intervals without
clicking on anything. Send/Receive gives the error screen. However, Receive
All works! Send All just momentarily flashes and then goes away.
Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

What do you mean by "Live Mail looks like it uploads stuff"?
You can configure Windows Live Mail to do as little web-related stuff
as you feel comfortable with.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Windows Mail can also be configured to fetch mail periodically:
Tools, Options, on the General tab: "Check for new messages every X minutes."
Do not make X less than 5.

Your symptom indicates interference from an antivirus program.
Which antivirus are you running?
As a minimum, email scanning in the antivirus should be turned off,
although that may not be sufficient to eliminate all bad effects.
In a worst case scenario, your antivirus may need to be uninstalled.

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

 

[Canuck57]

What do you mean by "Live Mail looks like it uploads stuff"?
You can configure Windows Live Mail to do as little web-related stuff
as you feel comfortable with.

I ended up trying it. Cannot say I was impressed, Outlook Express back
end on a new front end, all the incompatibilities with IMAP and NNTP and
more. Looks like a big turn for the worse, they should have just
recompiled XP Outlook Express and at least be marginally usuable.

Ended up with Thunderbird. Works right on Linux, does well for IMAP on
Vista, but some NG seems like the threads are messed up. So it isn't
perfect but better than the MS choices.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

This would be a dull world if we all liked the same thing.

 

[Canuck57]

This would be a dull world if we all liked the same thing.

Quite true.