send does not work any more

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Windows mail (Vista) used to work fine for both my accounts. Since a couple
of days I am no longer able to send e-mail from my standard account. Sending
e-mail from my other account however still works. Receiving works for both
accounts. I have uninstalled McAfee, but that does not help. Anyone any clue
what is going on?

Thnx,

Maguro
 
When you try to send from your standard account is there an error message?
Is there an undeletable message stuck in your Outbox?
Have you tried creating another account just like the standard account, and then
deleting the existing standard account?

Gary VanderMolen
 
Don't assume your problem is just like someone else's.
Spell out what your problem is, complete with a verbatim error message.
It is always best to begin a new post instead of tagging on to an existing post.

Gary VanderMolen
 
I had the same problem. After tinkering around for an answer, I discovered
that the outgoing SMTP for my service provider was changed. It used to be
25. Now it's 587. That's for Comcast. Other service providers may be
different. To change the SMTP go to Windows Mail, Tools, Accounts, Mail,
Properties, Advance tab. You will see your SMTP. It solved my problem on
two computers. Hope this helps.
 
Why didn't you come here for help?
Incidentally, your PC appears to be set for the wrong time zone
because your post is time-stamped in the future.

Gary VanderMolen
 
Tell me about it! I was charged a dollar per minute by a so-called
"technician" (based in India, of course) who spent two hours trying to make
my email send my messages. I blew up when he told me I had to charge
another hour. His response was that it was taking a long time for him to
read in "finding the solution". I informed him that, as an employed
technician he must be getting a salary to fix problems and that I had no
idea my dollar a minute was paying for him to learn his job. That being
said, he wouldn't be getting another dime of my money until he got some
training.
 
I do not get an error message. The mail simply remains in my outbox without
being send. If I then use the F5 button it tries to send the mail, but if I
read it correctly (the window opens and closes within a second) the message
says the connection was closed.

Once more, if I switch to my other account I am able to send the same
message without any problems.

Hope you can help me out.

Maguro
 
While you had McAfee installed it may have corrupted that one account.
Create a new mail account with the same settings, then delete the bad
account.

If that doesn't fix it, and you can't delete the message that is in the
outbox, use Steve Cochran's program to clear the outbox:

Go to http://www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/
When you start to download the wmutil.zip file,
be sure to choose Save rather than Run.
After it finishes downloading choose Run, then Extract. Then it will
show the extraction folder with two files in it, WMUtil.exe and scxout.dll.
Run WMUtil.exe, wait until the buttons become active, then click on
Clear Outbox. It may take a while. Before you start, make sure
Windows Mail is not running.

Gary VanderMolen
 
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