Can't open an email account

Hi to all those who tried to help me with my email problem

As was suggested here, I got a guy with computer expertise to sort out my
problem for me.

Several people here suggested giving WLM a miss and using something else.
It was his preference as well, so Mozilla Thunderbird is what I'm using now.
So I'm back in business now.

Thank you all for your help

GordonW

On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:44:10 +1000, GordonW wrote:

Hi to all those who tried to help me with my email problem

As was suggested here, I got a guy with computer expertise to sort out
my problem for me.

Several people here suggested giving WLM a miss and using something
else. It was his preference as well, so Mozilla Thunderbird is what I'm
using now. So I'm back in business now.

Great news.

Okay, now that you've got your email all working better, now's the time to
move your *Usenet* account to Thunderbird as well. WLM doesn't do
newsgroups any better than email; it's terrible!

GordonW wrote:

Hi to all those who tried to help me with my email problem

As was suggested here, I got a guy with computer expertise to sort out my
problem for me.

Several people here suggested giving WLM a miss and using something else.
It was his preference as well, so Mozilla Thunderbird is what I'm using now.
So I'm back in business now.

I've gotten e-mails from Microsoft warning that I must "reconnect" to my
Microsoft e-mail accounts due to some change; else, I lose access. That
applies only with some clients and looks to be an issue with other than
EAS (Exchange ActiveSync) connects (i.e., POP or IMAP). It is unclear
what they mean by "reconnect".

https://support.office.com/en-us/art...rs=en-US&ad=US

WLM is not mentioned because Microsoft abandoned that product years ago.
It is a legacy product so no support so don't expect it to get mentioned
in their help articles.

I don't know what access method you defined for your Microsoft account.
Microsoft announced a long time ago that they were discontinuing their
proprietary Deltasync support (what WLM supports other than POP, IMAP,
and SMTP). Then later they killed the Deltasync servers. They replaced
Deltasync with EAS. WLM doesn't support EAS. I don't think Thunderbird
does, either, so the issue seems more likely the requirement to
"reconnect" your client to your Microsoft account. Moving to a
different local e-mail client and defining new accounts in a new profile
there probably emulated Microsoft's "reconnect" requirement.