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Windows Mail or a Vista Problem?

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Ross M. Greenberg - 24 May 2008 13:36 GMT
This is making no sense!

I'm running Vista Ultimate with Windows Mail.  Early this morning, I was checking my mail, reading and posting to newsgroups, and things are going well.

Then I went to get a cup of coffee, came back, and went to check my mail again.  And I'm getting the following error message:

" Account: 'bellsouth.net', Server: 'mail.bellsouth.net', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR login failed', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92"

Obviously there is no problem in posting to newsgroups.  When I check mail the other servers I check have no problem, and I have no problem with my various IM's.

Is this a server problem, a Vista problem, a Windows mail problem, a router problem, something else or combination of some of these or all of these problem?

Perplexed!

Ross
Mike Hall - MVP - 24 May 2008 14:07 GMT
This is making no sense!

I'm running Vista Ultimate with Windows Mail.  Early this morning, I was
checking my mail, reading and posting to newsgroups, and things are going
well.

Then I went to get a cup of coffee, came back, and went to check my mail
again.  And I'm getting the following error message:

" Account: 'bellsouth.net', Server: 'mail.bellsouth.net', Protocol: POP3,
Server Response: '-ERR login failed', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server
Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92"

Obviously there is no problem in posting to newsgroups.  When I check mail
the other servers I check have no problem, and I have no problem with my
various IM's.

Is this a server problem, a Vista problem, a Windows mail problem, a router
problem, something else or combination of some of these or all of these
problem?

Perplexed!

Ross

You can check your mail settings by calling your mail provider. You may be
told at the same time that the mail server at their end is having problems..

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Ross M. Greenberg - 24 May 2008 18:13 GMT
> You can check your mail settings by calling your mail provider. You may be
> told at the same time that the mail server at their end is having problems..

So I checked with ATT/BellSouth as per your advice.  They claim I was in something they called a "hung session" -- they reset me from the central office and all is okay now.

Why does this kind of thing always happen on the weekend?  :-)

Thanks, Mike!

Ross
 
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