Windows Live Mail Desktop Error

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I just installed the Windows Live Mail Desktop beta and it's giving me this
error message "Unable to poll for new messages on your HTTP server. Protocol:
NNTP, Server Response: 'An error has occurred.', Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No,
Error Number: 0x8004108D" when I attempt to get my hotmail email msgs. I
searched for a fix and it the solutions i found mentioned my proxies (which
are fine and didn't require changing) and I really can't find any other
solutions. I'm presently on a dialup connection and I do occasionally get
popups in IE about working offline or connecting even though i'm connected. I
have my computer setup to connect to a LAN at university but it's currently
disabled. I'm using IE7 beta, XP Home. Any suggestions?
 
Fair enough. You may wish to contact the Windows Live Mail Desktop team and
inform them in the next build they should remove this community from the
"Questions and Answers from Communities" under the Help tab since help for
their software apparently can't be found here. Sorry for inconviencing the
users of this forum.
 
I'm slightly confused here Jim. I've been breezing through other posts which
are focused around Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta problems and you seemed to
have no problem answering a number of them
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...D18D-FA0E-A366-6E527B0FBA67&lang=en&cr=US&p=1
and
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...D18D-FA0E-A366-6E527B0FBA67&lang=en&cr=US&p=1
Now, just out of curiosity why would you bother answering these questions if
WLMail was not supported here? Also I doubt that the build team would have
directed users to this site by accident. Do you make this post to punt users
who's issues require more troubleshooting than you'd prefer? The link you
provided was useless and most proficient users would realize this. I've
visited the site before and it's a press site used more as hype for the mail
beta than anything else.

I find this kind of treatment is a general theme in windows based tech
communities, I think you should take a page out of Ubuntu user's book and be
a little more personable with users supporting Microsoft products. If you're
an "MVP, Outlook Express" user with your own blog relating to Outlook Express
this issue should be something you've heard of before since the fixes
relating to this error have roots in Outlook Express,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q259133/ .

As for my question, I'll seek help elsewhere since posting here will
obviously get me nowhere now that you've replied to the post. Please, for
future posts, if you really can't answer the question, don't want to, or the
question doesn't relate to the forum's overall topic, say something like
"Sorry, can't help" instead of being so curt about it. Don't further sour
people on Micorsoft by being a poor representative albeit amateur and
voluntary.
 
Antho said:
I'm slightly confused here Jim. I've been breezing through other posts
which
are focused around Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta problems and you seemed
to
have no problem answering a number of them
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...D18D-FA0E-A366-6E527B0FBA67&lang=en&cr=US&p=1
and
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...D18D-FA0E-A366-6E527B0FBA67&lang=en&cr=US&p=1
Now, just out of curiosity why would you bother answering these questions
if
WLMail was not supported here? Also I doubt that the build team would have
directed users to this site by accident. Do you make this post to punt
users
who's issues require more troubleshooting than you'd prefer? The link you
provided was useless and most proficient users would realize this. I've
visited the site before and it's a press site used more as hype for the
mail
beta than anything else.

I find this kind of treatment is a general theme in windows based tech
communities, I think you should take a page out of Ubuntu user's book and
be
a little more personable with users supporting Microsoft products. If
you're
an "MVP, Outlook Express" user with your own blog relating to Outlook
Express
this issue should be something you've heard of before since the fixes
relating to this error have roots in Outlook Express,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q259133/ .

As for my question, I'll seek help elsewhere since posting here will
obviously get me nowhere now that you've replied to the post. Please, for
future posts, if you really can't answer the question, don't want to, or
the
question doesn't relate to the forum's overall topic, say something like
"Sorry, can't help" instead of being so curt about it. Don't further sour
people on Micorsoft by being a poor representative albeit amateur and
voluntary.
Click to expand...

I had the same exact problem that you had with Windows Live Mail Desktop
beta. Try checking your firewall settings and see if that solves the
problem. Let me know if this helps.
 
Antho said:
I just installed the Windows Live Mail Desktop beta and it's giving me this
error message "Unable to poll for new messages on your HTTP server.
Protocol:
NNTP, Server Response: 'An error has occurred.', Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No,
Error Number: 0x8004108D" when I attempt to get my hotmail email msgs. I
searched for a fix and it the solutions i found mentioned my proxies
(which
are fine and didn't require changing) and I really can't find any other
solutions. I'm presently on a dialup connection and I do occasionally get
popups in IE about working offline or connecting even though i'm
connected. I
have my computer setup to connect to a LAN at university but it's
currently
disabled. I'm using IE7 beta, XP Home. Any suggestions?
Click to expand...

I had the same exact problem that you had with Windows Live Mail Desktop
beta. Try checking your firewall settings and see if that solves the
problem. Let me know if this helps.
 
Well i had tried that before but actually I fixed it. I did some reading on
outlook pages and i found out that outlook ties it's settings in with your IE
settings, based on this and the fact that occasionally in IE7 beta i was
getting errors saying i wasn't online and it asked me to connect or work
offline. I came to the conclusion that the IE7 beta's settings which were
being shared with the WLMDB were askew and so i tried a number of fixes for
IE7's settings and finally uninstalled it and went back to IE6 (I've been
using firefox for years anyway so this really didn't effect me in the least.)
Thanks for your input though :)
 
I was running into the same problem. What I did to fix it was bu going into
the properties of my hotmail account (right click it and select properties),
then go to connection. From here I clicked the always connect useing button.
That selectee the LAN option for me (only one I have). It asked me for a
passowrd after that then downloaded 4 days worth of email. I hope this helps
someone else.
 
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