Windows Mail

Hey Hi Peter,
I've been thinking of you lately and hoping that your eye's has been healthy.

You posted on the Seven Forum about Eight, but the good information is I had just updated all the latest Windows Updates on Win7 the other day and everything is still normal operation for WinMail on 7.

Tonight when I get a chance I will also check Windows Update and fully update Win8 current as well, and see if there are any new problems with WinMail that have come up because of any Windows Update conflicts. I will post back then or in the morning before work.

Again though, as far as Windows 7 WinMail operation after updating all the latest Windows updates available, all is normal.

Okay tested it now. I haven't updated W8 in a while I see and had nearly 300 MB of updates available.
I installed all the updates in the ''Important'' column but left the few in the Optionals column unchecked, rebooted, tested WinMail afterwards and just like before I can still Send/Receive mail, and still post in newsgroups just fine Peter.

And so according to 'my' Windows 8 setup it seems it's not a Windows Update change that caused your problem, but since for 'your particular setup' we can't say for 100% sure unless of course you do a Restore and then prove it out.

As far as what to do from here Peter, no need for me to spell it out since the smart seasoned tech that you are you know what to do to isolate it, of which hopefully you have kept full install tracking of your file & registry changes made since then (which is preferred) ..or if not then secondly is to do a Restore Point, or even restoring a saved backup partition image of your OS, etc, etc... Whatever you need to do to restore it to working order, and then logically move forward with installs to isolate and prove out who/what the culprit was.
If it were my setup I have softwares installed that would be able to see all the file/registry changes made each day, and from that I would decipher what did what to affect my WinMail, and simply reverse the offenders.

Anyway Peter let us know how you make out, and if needed PM me if you need any testings done so we don't untidy the thread with intermediate posts.

Good Night,
All the best to succeed

Hi Peter,

Got out of bed for a minute so decided to drop in here quick and saw your reply
If you did not have internet connection then your email Send/Recieve gui would stay open and prompt you that it could not connect, so that can't be it.

I have a number of email accounts that polls for incoming messages too, so it takes a few seconds and I can watch them all as they flow through the different ones till the end, but if I check mail on only one at a time, then it flashes by verrrry fast, and if there are no messages on that one then the Send/Receive flashes by so fast and disappears you could nearly miss it; anyway that single quickness almost sounds like what yours does. My point is I would think if you had something missing in your account information setup could cause what you say happens of your "polling window flashes open for just a split second and closes" while still having an active account connection is why you're not prompted of a failure ...so poke around matching the Properties of each of your accounts on the malfunctioning OS, over to a working OS, to make sure all the settings are the same...and so since you have 10 accounts it would never go that fast, and so first checking to be sure that the box that says on each account ''include this account when receiving mail or synchronizing" look at that on all your account tabs to make sure here all are still checkmarked.. and anything else in there.
My thought is it's something simple that happened, so no need to swallow anything to use WLM heavens goodness there's no need for that, it will be a simple fix in hindsight you'll see, sleep on it.

It could of been anything that inadvertently made a change to your setup. It's still not out of the question that one of your automatic Windows Updates did something to yours that I did not experience; or it could be most anything else you did.
For me it is here that's imperative to refer to fie/registry tracking changes, because I would just let my software automatically compare the file/registry snapshot from what it was on the day it worked till the present, and presto out comes a navigable graphical windows interface mimicking Windows file/registry gui's of all the changes made in each file/registry locations, I would focus in on the WinMail location of their file/registry homes, observe any changes made, and could one click create a reversal or if necessary create install files of same; at any rate I would see the cause and effect and know what did it. I know you don't have that so you have no choice but to do it the hard way, which is the manual process of elimination.

It cannot be stressed enough to always create an appropriate backup of whatever your choice is. At least the built-in Windows Restore Points can be useful if one has nothing else.
In this case I do not think reinstalling WinMail will help as you found out since you said you already did that, besides the problem seems to lie in the account settings/options area which is always manually entered anyway.

This WinMail information even though you are on your WinMail Windows 8 install is relevant for WinMail for Windows 7 users too, because the basic WinMail operation is exactly the same, the only difference between the two is the installation process to put WinMail on Windows 7 vrs Windows 8 is all, otherwise operationally is the same basics. The same goes for WinMail on Vista, on Windows 7, on Windows 8, and yes as stated even on Windows 10 now too.