Hi Ray, to my knowledge, Hotmail, MSN, and windows live mail just went thru an upgrade that has taken longer than anticipated. the best thing to do is give it time, while contacting live mail tech support to alert them to your problem. my parents just went thru many weeks of on and off again service with windows live mail services and MSN. With many emails checking all kinds of settings, it just started working again Wednesday. I did a quick google search of basically the same problem, and many reported either just wait a short time and see if it resolves itself. Deleting the account and recreating it , and many other solutions that were all over the board. So the only thing I can suggest is either give it time and see if it resolves itself, contact your ISP and see if they have anything to recommend, or contact windows live mail support for answers. good luck and I hope you get your problem resolved as quickly as possible. Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray Campbell Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 11:17 AM Subject: Problem Sending E-mail using Win Hello All: I'm having a problem sending messages using Windows Mail on a Microsoft Windows Vista machine running JFW 8.0. I get the dialog that pops up saying "some errors occurred while performing the requested tasks." The message is "the connection to the server has failed," with error code: 0X800CCC0E. I looked this up in the Microsoft Knowledge Base and it says there that I might get this error code if I am signed into MSN as MSN won't let me use another SMTP server to send messages. Here's the thing, though. While I do have Windows Live Messenger on my Vista machine, I have not signed in and I have it set up so it will not run when I start the computer. The account settings are all correct in Windows Mail. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this problem? Again, Messenger is on my computer but I don't have it running. There is nothing for Live Messenger or MSN in either my startup group under All Programs or in msconfig under the startup tab. Thanks in advance for any help. Ray Campbell, Help Desk Technician -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx