Serious delay receiving emails on Windows Live Mail

Possibly dumb questions, but is WLM checking for new mail when it is launched? Do you see it checking at the bottom of the screen? Does nothing show up if you do a manual send/receive? How often is WLM set to check for new mail? I assume you can send mail from WLM without issues? WLM is still set as the default mail handler? Nothing got changed in your e-mail account in WLM? No error messages when trying to do anything in WLM?

Hi Jamis,
Yes WLM is set to check for mail when launched and every 15 minutes when running, and yes I do see the 'checking for mail' at the bottom of the screen. Manual send & receive tried and nothing happens, mail can be sent without any problems. WLM is the default and as far as I can see there have been no changes in the account. The puzzle is why for no apparent reason half a dozen or more emails will suddenly arrive, some having been sent many hours previously?

This morning logged on and 10 emails arrived, 3 dated the 27th, 6 the 28th and one from today 29th????

That's a real poser. Have you contacted your Internet Service Provider or the folks that are providing the e-mail service? Our ISP changed e-mail providers a year or so ago. They went from doing the e-mail in house and outsourced it to TuCows. There were lots of issues with SPAM, blacklists, and connectivity for several months afterwards. I would cite an e-mail problem to my ISP, they would work with TuCows and get the problem corrected. We use WLM primarily, but use the web mail app occasionally. I still see some discrepancies between the two, like mail deleted by WLM not getting deleted by TuCows immediately.

Rwincham said:

not sure if this is as I have a netbook on W7 which is on WLM and the same ISP, no problems with it??????

Ah, another fact! Have you compared the WLM setups between both machines to make sure something isn't the same and thus causing the problem? I once had Windows change a setting in my WLM account and it suddenly stopped connecting with the e-mail server. Somehow the POP3 setting got changed without my input. Good luck with your ISP too. Also, are both WLMs at the same version and build? Do both systems have the same updates installed?