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e mail error message 0x80004004

Anonymous
2009-08-21T04:30:19+00:00

unable to send or receive messages for the windows hotmail.com account.

unable to send or receive messages for the windows msn.com account.

the operation was cancelled by the user??

server error :0x80004004

windows live mail error ID:0x80004004

I am running around like a headless chicken with this, I have changed passwords so many times that im running out of them. Can somebody please help and nail this down for me. thanks in advance.

I am running a new laptop with VISTA basic. Have been through the obvious solution routes but ran out of patience

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  1. Anonymous
    2009-08-21T07:43:07+00:00

    Hello cookham,

    Changing Your MSN Messenger Sign In Settings

    1.     Open MSN Messenger

    2.     Click the down arrow next to your current status (i.e. Available, Appear Offline)

    3.     Click Options

    4.     Click on Sign In

    5.     Under the General heading you can choose to remove the checkmark from the boxes next to Automatically run Windows Live Messenger when I log into Windows or Allow automatic sign in when connected to the internet.

    6.     Changing either of these options will prevent you from automatically being signed into Hotmail.

    Hope this helps you. Let us know either way. Make it a great day!

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  1. Anonymous
    2009-10-26T07:26:09+00:00

    friday august 21st refers.

    chris H, i have been clear of the earlier problem to which you responded with an answer, however it has cropped up again on my msn mail a/c. have again followed your earlier instructions , I have no check marks at all to delete-how do I get out of this new problem?

    If you could spare the time to consider this I would be grateful.

    montem

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  2. Anonymous
    2009-10-21T21:08:42+00:00

    Hi there,

    Just wanted to share how did I solve a similar problem (same error code and "unable to send or receivr messages")

    • Problem cause : A corrupted e-mail in the outbox folder (easy to identify because WLM won't be able to display the message)
    • Solution : Simply delete the corrupted e-mail and WLM will resume normal operation sycning your live hotmail account.

    Normally when having this problem people are advised to remove their account and add it again.  Since that will erase all your localy stored messages it will for sure solve the problem, but there are two drawbacks to this method:

    1. If you had other healty e-mails that were not uploaded to the internet server you will lose them together with the corrupted one.
    2. You will have to download all your messages again, which may be a very long process for some people with several GBs

    For the record, a related problem is the one with error ID:0x80004102

    Also got that one recently (I've been playing a lot with hotmail accounts...), and this time around the problem was a corrupt message in a data folder (the inbox or any other folder different from outbox). Again, I simply found the message, deleted it, and WLM resumed its normal operation.

    Hope that helps other people,

    Daniel

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  3. Anonymous
    2009-10-05T15:49:28+00:00

    starting windows live mail and input my user ****@live.se and the correct password

    Server Error: 0x80004004

    Server: http://mail.services.live.com/DeltaSync_V2.0.0/Sync_aspx

    Windows Live Mail Error id:0x80004004

    so my question is can you Only use windows by having a hotmail acount?

    like the adress ends hotmail.com

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  4. Anonymous
    2009-08-21T09:47:06+00:00

    Sir,Thank you for your response, It will take a little time to see if the instructions are successful, but I will keep you notified.

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