Posting to Newsgroup

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Clayton

I am trying to post a message to this group using Windows Mail and when I
send the post it asks me to Sign in to Microsoft Communities, so I use my
email and password which I use for MSN and it mentions an error about:blank
and does no more, how do I fix this?
 
Clayton,
turn it off
right click on Microsoft Communities>properties>Windows Live ID tab> Never
use Community features that require Windows Live ID
that should be a temp fix for ya,
:-)
Jeff
 
A temp fix? is it a bug in WM?

Jeff said:
Clayton,
turn it off
right click on Microsoft Communities>properties>Windows Live ID tab>
Never use Community features that require Windows Live ID
that should be a temp fix for ya,
:-)
Jeff
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Clayton,

Not sure,
I use Windows Live ID for certain stuff, but not for others.
Is your MSN id the same as a Windows Live ID?
If you use it to log in to say; Connect/messenger; or the multitude of other
MSFT sites that require login, then yes, maybe a problem.
I've noticed; at certain times Winmail balks at my Live ID login,
so when I said temp fix; I meant a temp solution; so that you could further
investigate the issue.
That will disable Windows Live ID so you can at least post in here.
If you can get the specific error message and post it; someone may have a
solution,
it could be as simple as a hidden character typed; that makes the error; or
could be something completely different.

Jeff
 
Yes its a bug.

There is a feature that has been used in the HTTP interface to msnews that
is being incorporated into NNTP with WinMail, exclusive to the msnews
server. See here for details:
http://www.microsoft.com/library/gallery/components/wn/3/locales/help/help_en-US.htm#GettingStarted

Unfortunately they not only didn't provide any documentation on this in the
help or anywhere else in WinMail but they also released it with a bugs. If
you sign on with your Passport or LiveID or whatever they are calling it
now, then you will see the new community features. To do this though you
get the error originally referenced in this thread. If you close those
error windows after signing on, then you will able to see the ratings and
such and be able to rate the messages.

Unfortunately as per usual with Microsoft in reference to its OS mail
programs, they dropped the ball again and didn't bother to tell anyone about
it, and they released it with these bugs that they knew existed.

As others indicated, you can right click on the MS Communities in the folder
list and go to Properties and Windows Live ID and disable the communities
feature if you wish.

It was a really nice feature set to add to WinMail, but it will probably
fail now because of the bugs and lack of support by MS.

steve

MS-MVP
OE / Windows Mail
 
Thanks, I remember bugging it in beta version


Steve Cochran said:
Yes its a bug.

There is a feature that has been used in the HTTP interface to msnews that
is being incorporated into NNTP with WinMail, exclusive to the msnews
server. See here for details:
http://www.microsoft.com/library/gallery/components/wn/3/locales/help/help_en-US.htm#GettingStarted

Unfortunately they not only didn't provide any documentation on this in
the help or anywhere else in WinMail but they also released it with a
bugs. If you sign on with your Passport or LiveID or whatever they are
calling it now, then you will see the new community features. To do this
though you get the error originally referenced in this thread. If you
close those error windows after signing on, then you will able to see the
ratings and such and be able to rate the messages.

Unfortunately as per usual with Microsoft in reference to its OS mail
programs, they dropped the ball again and didn't bother to tell anyone
about it, and they released it with these bugs that they knew existed.

As others indicated, you can right click on the MS Communities in the
folder list and go to Properties and Windows Live ID and disable the
communities feature if you wish.

It was a really nice feature set to add to WinMail, but it will probably
fail now because of the bugs and lack of support by MS.

steve

MS-MVP
OE / Windows Mail
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