Help! None of my messages will leave the outbox

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Kelly Rose

Okay, I'm trying to be patient with this system and give it a chance
but...... I can't send anything! I get various messages. One is POP3 server
not responding. One or more messages in outbox does not have valid acct.
specified. Use default acct? (Well, yes! Just SEND the dang thing!) Another
is SMTP server has not responded in 60 seconds.....etc.
All I want to do is attach some photos from my computer to an email account
and send them. Why is this so difficult?If I could just get over on my OLD
email I wouldn't have this problem.
I'm not liking this Vista stuff so far.

Please help!
Kelly
 
It sounds like you may have multiple issues with Windows Mail.
As a first step, read http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3
Then uninstall your antivirus program, reboot, and try Windows Mail
again. If it still doesn't work, create a new email account
with the same settings as the existing account, then delete the
existing account. restart Windows Mail, and it should work now.
If you still get an error message, copy it verbatim and post it
here.

Eventually, after you get your email working again, you will need
to install a non-intrusive antivirus program such as the free AVG
or Avast.
Whichever antivirus program you use, be sure to NOT enable its
email scanning option.

Gary VanderMolen
 
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