windows live mail desktop error

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?

This newsgroup is not for Live Mail, but rather for users who have Vista and "Windows Mail" installed. Try reading the info provided on the blogs about Live Mail Desktop:
Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta: http://morethanmail.spaces.msn.com/PersonalSpace.aspx -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6 Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
"Antho" wrote in message

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. "Jim Pickering" wrote:

This newsgroup is not for Live Mail, but rather for users who have Vista and "Windows Mail" installed. Try reading the info provided on the blogs about Live Mail Desktop:
Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta: http://morethanmail.spaces.msn.com/PersonalSpace.aspx -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6 Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.

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/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail&tid=265648d6-92a2-4e60-8672-3a81aac5c943&cat=en_US_9CA88DDB-D18D-FA0E-A366-6E527B0FBA67&lang=en&cr=US&p=1 and http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail&tid=44991e00-f057-47bc-a2c4-a16c1f48ec21&cat=en_US_9CA88DDB-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.
"Jim Pickering" wrote:

This newsgroup is not for Live Mail, but rather for users who have Vista and "Windows Mail" installed. Try reading the info provided on the blogs about Live Mail Desktop:
Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta: http://morethanmail.spaces.msn.com/PersonalSpace.aspx -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6 Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.

"Antho" wrote in message

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/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail&tid=265648d6-92a2-4e60-8672-3a81aac5c943&cat=en_US_9CA88DDB-D18D-FA0E-A366-6E527B0FBA67&lang=en&cr=US&p=1 and http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail&tid=44991e00-f057-47bc-a2c4-a16c1f48ec21&cat=en_US_9CA88DDB-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.
"Jim Pickering" wrote:
This newsgroup is not for Live Mail, but rather for users who have Vista and "Windows Mail" installed. Try reading the info provided on the blogs about Live Mail Desktop:
Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta: http://morethanmail.spaces.msn.com/PersonalSpace.aspx -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6 Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.

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" wrote in message

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?

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 :)
"davidng150" wrote:

"Antho" wrote in message 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?
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.

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.
"Antho" wrote:

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?