I finally got rid of windows-live-essentials 2012 and I am using Mozilla Thunderbird 17.02. There is an ironic twist that 3 user names I had work with gmail.com and comcast.net. I went thru 21 email addresses at hotmail.com, live.com & outlook.com in over a year. The worst thing I had encountered was getting that WIN8 Pro - 4 email addresses lasted 5 days each over 7 day period. Darrell
I bought my wife a laptop running Windows 7 Professional 64. I configured Windows Live Mail with all her email addresses without any problem. Then I bought myself a new PC running an identical operating system.
Despite putting in identical configurations (apart, obviously, from the names) for POP, Ports etc. into my WLM none of them will run. I just get stuck in an endless loop of being asked for my password. Does anyone know a fix?

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